1 You did remember to sacrifice the chicken, didn't you?

2 are you sure you were facing north when you were juggling the squirrels at midnight?

3 Seriously, what are you doing to kill all those drives? I have never heard of that many drives going out this close together. Are they all in the same box? could there be something wrong with that box? Do the drives continue to be bad if plugged into another box?

4 One drive was brand new and just plain didn't work. That's not that rare. But still annoying. One drive suffered a filesystem corruption, but the drive itself is working fine. The other two are getting on in years, and now that the weather is warming up, I think they just decided to take a holiday. Actually, I'm not entirely sure that they are dead; they may have just hiccuped and been failed out of the RAID set. None of the drives have had a controller failure - they are all still recognised by BIOS. Two drives are in one box (my Linux server) - but the other drives in that box are fine. One drive wouldn't format when I installed it - in a different machine (my Windows box). The corrupt filesystem drive is an external Firewire thingy. I'll tell you some time about my six failed Deathstars.

5 EMAIL: pamela_woodlake@yahoo.com IP: 62.213.67.122 URL: DATE: 01/21/2004 03:47:21 PM Believing in God does not require believing in religion.