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Hardware and housekeeping...
Sep. 1st, 2005 11:58 amI hadn't taken a close enough look at the interpreter schedule yesterday when I found it wedged under the handle of my room door; for some reason, I thought I was the early guy this morning. I was wrong: my shift starts at 13:00 and runs until whenever work is done for the day.
A waste of a perfectly good early wakeup, if you ask me.
I stopped by the ops manager's room last night to see if I could save any of the files on his flaky hard disk drive with the Trinity Rescue distro that I managed to download the other night. (When you attempt to boot his machine, it doesn't take long for a message to appear announcing system instability, followed by proof: the screen blanks and the machine attempts to reboot.)
I wasn't able to do much last night, but earlier this morning, I found that I could mount a USB storage device and copy files to it. This is pretty important, as Trinity offers no reliable write capability to NTFS volumes, which limits recovery of files to copying them to whatever VFAT devices you can attach via USB or sending them out of the machine (e.g., via ftp) out the network port (assuming Trinity can negotiate the hardware on your machine.
The network is recognized on my VAIO, which bodes well for the ops manager's ThinkPad, I believe. I just hope that, if we have to send files out his network port, that we can do so to a machine on the local network (I'm not sure of how to do it just now, but I have been known to muster up the requisite resourcefulness in the past). Internet connectivity has pretty much been consistently clocking in at less than 1 kB/sec lately.
One nice side-effect of booting the Trinity Rescue distro on the VAIO is the ability to get into the hidden partition of the unit's hard drive where the Sony recovery software is stored. It turns out there is a file there (among others) called BootDisk.iso, which is an ISO image of a CD, and very likely the image of the one disk that Sony's disk-wastingburning software has been unable to create each time I've run it. Conceivably, I could recover all the files from the hidden partition and recover the disk real estate completely, but I don't think it's a critical item quite yet. But it is intriguing.
Time to go join humanity for lunch, and then it's off to work. I'm told there is a photo opportunity in Hall 111 today with the completely assembled space rocket. I'll probably stop by.
Cheers...
A waste of a perfectly good early wakeup, if you ask me.
I stopped by the ops manager's room last night to see if I could save any of the files on his flaky hard disk drive with the Trinity Rescue distro that I managed to download the other night. (When you attempt to boot his machine, it doesn't take long for a message to appear announcing system instability, followed by proof: the screen blanks and the machine attempts to reboot.)
I wasn't able to do much last night, but earlier this morning, I found that I could mount a USB storage device and copy files to it. This is pretty important, as Trinity offers no reliable write capability to NTFS volumes, which limits recovery of files to copying them to whatever VFAT devices you can attach via USB or sending them out of the machine (e.g., via ftp) out the network port (assuming Trinity can negotiate the hardware on your machine.
The network is recognized on my VAIO, which bodes well for the ops manager's ThinkPad, I believe. I just hope that, if we have to send files out his network port, that we can do so to a machine on the local network (I'm not sure of how to do it just now, but I have been known to muster up the requisite resourcefulness in the past). Internet connectivity has pretty much been consistently clocking in at less than 1 kB/sec lately.
One nice side-effect of booting the Trinity Rescue distro on the VAIO is the ability to get into the hidden partition of the unit's hard drive where the Sony recovery software is stored. It turns out there is a file there (among others) called BootDisk.iso, which is an ISO image of a CD, and very likely the image of the one disk that Sony's disk-
Time to go join humanity for lunch, and then it's off to work. I'm told there is a photo opportunity in Hall 111 today with the completely assembled space rocket. I'll probably stop by.
Cheers...
