Paul/all,
Indeed it was. I saw the fireball on Wednesday night, put together a
short loop of the 10 second apart images from our webcam, and next thing
I knew, it was everywhere. I even got to be on TV last night on one of
the Madison channels!
I was hoping the NPR folks would ask more about how the animation came
to be (since that's what got me involved to begin with) but regardless,
it was exciting to be interviewed by Robert Siegel!
The animation and images of the fireball from our webcam can be seen at:
http://www.aos.wisc.edu/fireball/
Pete
On 04/16/2010 12:32 PM, Paul J. Bayer wrote:
Was that fellow LDM'er Pete Pokrandt from UW that I heard on NPR's "All
Things Considered" yesterday? Look for "Pokran" in:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126025840
Paul
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 10:34 -0600, Pete Pokrandt wrote:
All,
There is also a firmware issue with some Western Digital SATA drives
dropping offline on some raid controllers as well. I had a raid go bad
last month, lost about 1 yr of archived recent data. Drives affected are
WD1600YS, WD2500YS, WD4000YS, and WD5000YS with certain firmware
revisions. Here's the Western Digital help page about the problem, with
a link to the firmware update and instructions.
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1493
All my WD5000YS drives in that array are now up to date, haven't had one
drop off since. (knocks on wood...)
Pete
Laws, Peter C. wrote:
Wasn't that far down in the pile. Problem started in 2008, fix available a
year or so ago.
--
Peter Laws / N5UWY
National Weather Center / Network Operations Center / Web
University of Oklahoma Information Technology
plaws@xxxxxx
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From: Peter Laws [plaws@xxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 08:49
To: NITC Distribution List
Subject: Seagate firmware issue
If you are aware of the Seagate firmware issue, keep reading. If not,
delete now and sleep peacefully. :-)
Thanks to XXXXX of XXXX, I have a rig set up in the NOC area to flash
certain disks. If you have 750 billion byte or 1 trillion byte SATA disks
that are in need of the SN06 firmware, please feel free to use the rig.
Come by with your SATA disk and I'll show you how it works. Takes about 2
minutes and is mostly automated.
Be forewarned: AFAIK, flashing the disk wipes the data and/or renders it
unusable.
On the storage unit I'm updating, I'm pulling one disk from the RAID and
letting it rebuild using the hot spare. Wnen I install the newly-flashed
disk, I set it as the new spare. 6 hours later or so, I do it again.
Seven down, 17 to go.
--
Peter Laws / N5UWY
National Weather Center / Network Operations Center
University of Oklahoma Information Technology
plaws@xxxxxx
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