Just to be a geek and also to see my wife roll her eyes. I decided to carve a pumpkin to help announce the release of Windows 7.
Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category
Windows 7 Pumpkin Carving
Monday, October 26th, 2009Expanding a RAID5 array without losing data
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009One of my remote offices was getting a little low on drive space on their data partition, so it was time to upgrade the existing drives to large capacity drives. This particular server is a Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard SP2 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with six 146GB SCSI drives and a PERC 5/i integrated controller. Drives 0 & 1 are configured RAID0 for the system partition and drives 2-5 are configured RAID5 for the data partition. Six internal drives are all the server is capable of, so I have no empty slots for additional drives to expand the RAID5. So replacing the 146GB drives with 300GB drives is the route I took to add additional space to the array. Here are the steps:
Fixing the D-Link DCS-950G wireless function
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009I’ve had this camera up and running about a year ago. Since then, it’s been powered off and not used. Today I decided to connect it back up and could not get the wireless working. So I did a factory reset by holding the reset button in for 10 seconds and also upgraded the firmware to 1.08. But even after doing that I still couldn’t get the wireless working.
Welcome to RichStevenson.com
Saturday, March 28th, 2009Just revamped the site and soon will be posting how-to articles related to Microsoft Server, Cisco IOS, and other miscellaneous subjects.
