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		<title>Windows 7 Pumpkin Carving</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Stevenson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">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.<br />
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		<title>Expanding a RAID5 array without losing data</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Stevenson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One 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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One 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 &amp; 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:</p>
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<p>1. As always, make sure you have a good backup of the server in case things go wrong.<br />
2. Remove drive 2 and replace it with one of the new 300GB drives.<br />
3. Wait for the array rebuild to complete by watching it in Dell OpenManage Server Administrator.<br />
4. Repeat steps 2-3 for the remaining 3 drives.<br />
5. Once the four drives are replaced, restart the server and hit Ctrl-R when prompted to enter the BIOS of the PERC5/i.<br />
6. Write down all of the settings for the existing RAID5 configuration, i.e. stripe size, read ahead.<br />
7. Deleted the RAID5 virtual disk and then recreated it with the new 300 GB drives, making sure to match the settings of the old virtual disk and be extra sure that the option to initialize the disk is <strong>NOT</strong> selected. If the disk is initialized, you will lose all of the data and will have to restore from your backup.<br />
8. Reboot the server and allow Windows to load. Once the OS comes up, login and verify that all of the data is still intact.<br />
9. From a command prompt type <strong>diskpart</strong>.<br />
10. At <strong>DISKPART&gt;</strong> type <strong>list volumes</strong> and locate the Volume # of the volume that you want to add the additional free space to. In my case it was volume 1.<br />
11. At <strong>DISKPART&gt;</strong> type <strong>select volume 1</strong>.<br />
12. At <strong>DISKPART&gt;</strong> Type <strong>extend</strong>.<br />
13. At <strong>DISKPART&gt;</strong> Type <strong>exit</strong> and close the command window.</p>
<p>Your RAID5 should be expanded with all data intact.</p>
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		<title>Fixing the D-Link DCS-950G wireless function</title>
		<link>http://www.richstevenson.com/2009/07/29/fixing-the-d-link-dcs-950g-wireless-function/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Stevenson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had this camera up and running about a year ago. Since then, it&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve had this camera up and running about a year ago. Since then, it&#8217;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&#8217;t get the wireless working.</p>
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<p>From the camera&#8217;s web interface, <strong>Wireless|Advanced</strong>, if I select <strong>Enable</strong> the page refreshes and the setting goes back to <strong>Disable</strong>. If I enter any of the wireless network info, and click <strong>Apply</strong>, the screen again refreshes and all of that info is cleared.</p>
<p>Also tried configuring from the Setup Wizard program installed from the CD, but the Wireless page as shown in the manual never came up. I got the login and IP page and that was it.</p>
<p>After posting my <a href="http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=6772.0">problem</a> in the <a href="http://www.dlink.com/support">D-Link forums</a>, one of the techs suspected the wireless card may have come loose in the camera. So I took the camera apart to check and the card was securely in place. But as we&#8217;ve seen before with other cards in PC&#8217;s, simply re-seating the wireless card fixed the problem.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of the internals, showing the wireless card. The card sits on three posts that will have to be pinched in order to release the card. These posts are also glued to the circuit board, so make sure they are still securely attached as well.</p>
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		<title>Welcome to RichStevenson.com</title>
		<link>http://www.richstevenson.com/2009/03/28/welcome-to-richstevensoncom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Stevenson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just revamped the site and soon will be posting how-to articles related to Microsoft Server, Cisco IOS, and other miscellaneous subjects.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just revamped the site and soon will be posting how-to articles related to Microsoft Server, Cisco IOS, and other miscellaneous subjects.</p>
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