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I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by LarryPage »

dylan604 wrote: post #71
AnnikaL wrote: post #64

See also: his video about RAIDs of floppy drives ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hc52_PWeU8 ).

Were the "power my car" and "shingle my roof" bits funny? Is this the level of YT videos to get likes?

I just do whatever I want

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by wahern »

_joel wrote: post #21
game-of-throws wrote: post #6

You're playing with fire using RAID0. If I had data on 30 floppy drives, I'd want at least 20 of them to be parity drives.

Just quickly remove some drives and set the write protect slider on them, problem solved, no data loss

A few years ago I finally bought a USB drive to read an old 3.5" floppy from the late '90s on which I had archived my e-mail messages before moving away to college. I completely forgot about write protection (as well as atime write-backs). I managed to read a surprising amount of data off of the disk, but I think less than if I had remembered to write-protect the disk before inserting it into the drive. The files were in mbox format, probably from Eudora, but possibly Pine. As is my habit, I first poked around with ls and less before copying the files over, and I'm pretty sure I ended up with more corruption than what I first saw with less.

Oh well. The irony is that to this day I have a tick of idly running `sync` at the command prompt, which I developed dealing with floppy and hard disk corruption running early versions of Linux. A crash or (IIRC) even a simple reboot sometimes resulted in disk corruption preventing Linux from booting. Reinstalling Slackware from floppy disks took quite awhile on its own, especially if installing the X11 disk sets, but half the time at least one of the disks would be corrupted, requiring me to download a fresh copy (using Windows--I was dual booting) over my 2400 baud modem, and then restarting the install from scratch. I probably went through this procedure at least a half dozen times, or at least enough to develop the tick. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.... =)

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by voxadam »

im_down_w_otp wrote: post #57
voxadam wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCXRerqaJI

This is the greatest thing that anyone has done with any computer hardware anywhere, ever. This is more impressive to me than the moon landing. :-)

Make sure you check out his other videos including other compositions he's done.

Star Wars theme: https://youtu.be/3KS02q0BUnY

I Wat to Break Free: https://youtu.be/lbd06i9B2wU

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by millzlane »

drewzero1 wrote: post #10
ryanmarr wrote: post #7

I've got a Power Mac G5 sitting right beside me if someone else wants to buy it and get into this G5 floppy website business.

Me too. We could start a webring! I just need about 27 more USB floppy drives.

But where will you put are the Warez?
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