@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Huntsman aren't really a problem, the biggest thing they do is frighten you, it's other mongrels that can make you pretty crook.

I used to be scared of snakes, not as much now after learning how they & why they react and how to treat snake bite. You don't want to get between a mother snake & it's babies either, they go mad at you.

Are Deers feral in the USA? They are down here, they're a real pest.

Most are. A few farms actually raise them around here, but 99% are feral.

Either kind is tasty, but I don't like processing them either. Tried it once, and no thanks.

@Jimmy9008 said in Huge Mistake:

@pmoncho said in Huge Mistake:

@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:

There's apparently a theory that you can "freeze a hard drive, and get it to read again"
Anyone ever hear of this?

Yep. Spinners only. I've been successful 3 out of 12 times. It only works when the drive heads or a platter is "stuck"

Wrap in saran wrap and Freeze for 2-3 hours, give a decent love tap along the side of the drive on the floor and plug it in to see if it will start.

Yep, I did this too. Problem is as it heats up the drive fails pretty quickly. So, if you have lots of data to get off the drive, with little time... good luck with that!

For that method to work, you really need to be able to hook it up in the freezer. I've seen someone with a mini fridge on a workbench before just for this.

@stacksofplates said in Chromebooks:

@Dashrender said in Chromebooks:

@JasGot said in Chromebooks:

I have read here in a few threads that Lenovo really took advantage of users with hidden access to the laptops. For this reason I have never considered Lenovo again. (Not that I was a fan before).....

But I see over and over how much people like their Lenovo CBs, is there any risk in a Lenovo CB or laptop?

@scottalanmiller

There's always a risk. Lenovo could easily create BIOS add-ons that force whatever OS it's aware of to download crap from the interwebs and install it.

That was a Windows only thing leveraging WPBT. Pretty sure they can't do that with ChromeOS because normal boot mode will only boot signed versions of ChromeOS and does a verification of the firmware and the kernel.

And they don't use a normal BIOS in normal mode. The legacy booting uses SeaBIOS.

That wasn't a Windows only thing. That is (we have no evidence that they've actually changed this) in the wifi driver stack for all supported operating systems. Add all the outright lies during that debacle and everything since, and Lenovo is a known bad actor.

I have an HP convertible, forget which exact model without going to get it. It's one that has a low end Intel CPU, so it can do all the Debian and Android apps in addition to the chrome plugins. Great machine for on the go.

You all remember what Scott always says about storage spaces? Don't upgrade to 2004 if you care about data inside a storage space.

https://hothardware.com/news/windows-10-storage-spaces-file-corruption-has-been-resolved

@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

A potentially deadly weather pattern is setting up across the central US

Extreme temperatures coupled with high humidity flowing from the Gulf of Mexico have set the stage for life-threatening heat in parts of the central and southern US.
Texas and Oklahoma are no strangers to excessive heat in the heart of summer and, a little over 10 days into the season, the region is bracing for stifling heat through the upcoming holiday weekend.
Temperatures are set to feel hotter in Dallas,Texas, than in Death Valley, California. Earlier in the week, parts of Texas registered the ultimate mark of oppressive warmth. Some cities including San Antonio, Lufkin and Victoria set records for hot low temperatures, with some failing to dip below 80 degrees even in the overnight hours.

goddamnit, 2020. So help me, if the elections go badly in Nov, I'm signing up for a Mars 1-way ticket.

What are our choices, really? Crazy or memory has failed, our choice

@openit said in How can we recover data from Hard Drives were on RAID 10 without controller?:

@scottalanmiller said in How can we recover data from Hard Drives were on RAID 10 without controller?:

@openit said in How can we recover data from Hard Drives were on RAID 10 without controller?:

Again, since it is RAID 10, it will have a pair (for striping), is it HDD 1 and HDD 2 will be pair one ? HDD 3 and HDD 4 will be pair 2?

Only QNAP will know that one. I bet no one has it documented.

I asked QNAP Support on this, below is his reply:

" Due to I do not have information of the RAID array metadata, the information provided below is based on default assumption, which is same as your reply.

Disk 1 and Disk 2 is first pair

Disk 3 and Disk 4 is second pair"

I went with straight configuration while setting up RAID on this, so I believe it will have same default pair.

In that case, Disk 1 and Disk 2 are like RAID 0 array, and I can use any recovery software with these two drives, which supports RAID 0 to recover, obviously by taking precautions like disk status check and dupe the drives?
@scottalanmiller @CCWTech

Not quite. Disk 1 and 2 are mirrored. Disk 3 and 4 are also mirrored. The "RAID 0" array is across the two mirrors.

So you could use disk 1 and 3 or disk 2 and 4.

What you described would be RAID 01, which was never popular because of so many reasons. A couple off the top of my head, same amount of drive space overhead as RAID10 and disk failure is much harder to deal with.

@openit said in How can we recover data from Hard Drives were on RAID 10 without controller?:

Hi there,

I have a QNAP NAS box, which started giving trouble of stuck at System Booting, as opened a ticket with Support, they conclude that it is hardware level fault.

Not sure if I can do something on Device without sending the device to QNAP, like booting from Linux on USB etc. to access the drives from there.

About recovering the data on hard drives from this NAS Box, which is configured with RAID 10 on 4 SATA Hard Drives.

Is it possible to connect these SATA hard drives to PC and recover data?

If yes, I will boot Fedora Live CD, and connect one by one hard drives, at first to check if hard drives are Okay, by looking at SMART or other tools in Fedora. Once done with Hard Drive checking, I may want to connect to Windows PC and get data.

Again, since it is RAID 10, it will have a pair (for striping), is it HDD 1 and HDD 2 will be pair one ? HDD 3 and HDD 4 will be pair 2?

Once I connected, how can I combine data from HDD 1 and HDD 2 as singe drive to get the data? with any software?

Appreciate you kind response!

Well, you won't be able to do anything with the device itself.

If you are a LVM and MD master, it's possible to read data from those drives. Most techs are much more likely to just erase everything than actually get data off of them.

@scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

@pmoncho said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

@scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

@Pete-S said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

@scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

Confirmed, snipping the orange wire (I needed help as I can't see orange) did the job, drive showed up immediately.

Congrats! I wasn't sure you'd be up for the task. A lot of people are afraid to make permanent changes to their equipment.

You can't believe how much pushback I got from @Dominica and @pchiodo about snipping a simple cable on a $2 SATA extension part! For me, it was a no brainer once knowing what it was. But they were up for spending hundreds of dollars to avoid snipping that wire. And it isn't even hard wired to the power supply or anything it's literally just a SATA extension piece! lol Like $2 tops if you don't shop around.

I would have been with @Dominica and @pchiodo on this. Electric scares me. I would think snipping the wire would cause a spark while I wasn't home and come home to a few burning cinders.

That was mentioned as a concern. lol

It's a 3.3v line... not going to catch anything on fire! (Trust me on that, I've tried.)

Missed a couple this week, I've been busy!

First is a number of webex and Small Business routers.
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2020/06/18/cisco-releases-multiple-security-updates

Next up is IOS XE devices with a telenet RCE.
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2020/06/25/cisco-releases-security-advisory-telnet-vulnerability-ios-xe