What exactly happened to the data?
 

Real hard for me to ask but......what did they decide was the reason for the data loss?

I told you, my cat used his mind ray to demagnatize the hard drives.

If only that were possible.......
*imagines the possibilities*

hax0rs st0le Halx's m3g4hurtz :p

doesnt matter now, it's over.

You haven't met my cat.

I reckon if we knew exactly what happend we'd start a suggestion war!
Why didnt you ..................?
Etc etc.

A cow tripped over something and knocked a lantern to the ground and it started this huge fire that burned down most of Chicago.

Hopefully not............I ask so my mind can finally be at peace.....when I learn how then I can yell out all the profanities I can (mentally of course) then get back to enjoying the new TFP.

hard drives fail, it's that simple. In our case, two hard drives fail. Typiycally there isn't a "cause" for these things, they just sort of...happen. :(

"two hard drives failED"

FailED.

Heh, I am an ass...hehehehe.

Too bad it happened, but we're back up now.

they weren't IBM Deathstars were they? I've had a couple of those blow up on me.

Datamonster ate it.

I'm running my system on a raid0 setup with two of those.
I sacrifice frogs each thursday to appese the harddrive gods.

I'm just glad they brought it back up. Welcome Back!

How did two drives fail? drop the computers from a building or were there some "outside forces" working against all that love the TFP??? good thing its back up though. thanks :)

Personally, I don't care what happened, as long as the site stays up, I'm happy. :)

Amen to that.

Diddo
Everything starts anew.

Likin' the new look......for short notice this is bad ass.

Aside from being a stubbon jackass, that's pretty hard for me to believe unless there was some foul play involved. Or it just could be that the hd's were run straineously for far too long. Yeah, that's good enough. I'm over it.

Aliens... has to be....

whatever it was, lets just enjoy the new, improved place, and pray it doesn't happen again.

dunno.. but if you can get my sig... I didn't write it down anywhere else....

i blame the helper monkeys

then again, i always blame them for everything

tape backup (or even cd backup!) is a good thing.

I blame OBL, Saddam and the Taliban!

Glad

I peed on them, and the smell made them die.

Gremlins. It's always gremlins.

"The system is down!"
/Strongbad

Well, a physical crash can occur in one of many ways. The heads are held over magnetized metal plates spinnig at several thousand RPM. This creates a cushion of air between the heads and the disk surface. One way that many drives fail (one of the most audible) is that something happens to cause that air cushion to dissipate. The heads physically crash into the disk surface, shredding it on a molecular leval and eradicating data as the disk (literally) screeches to a halt.

Other problems can occur, a motor can burn out, a connection can break, the mounting hardware that holds the individual disks inside the drive can break and let the disks wobble out of control, crashing into the inside of the casing (it's happened to me.)

Someitmes, the data can come back, sometimes not. I burned out a motor, and successfully transplanted the data disks into another drive that had physical damage. If the heads crash, which I'm guessing is what happened, you probably have no hope.

I think we should send billege's cat some kitty treats to prevent another psychic cat attack. I only got in during v3, but 4 sounds like plenty to me, so lets all keep the cat happy. ;)

Ventillation/cooling of HDD is very important. The newer drives are much more sensitive it seems. Oh, Segate rocks. Segate Cheetah is the real deal :)

well, thanks to Halx for fixing it all back up. Its good to be back

well, thanks to Halx for fixing it all back up. Its good to be back, here's my first post of the new version, may we have many good times ahead. Cheers.

Ya see MoJo, the lab monkey, tried to stick his thingie in the other thingie and next thing you know there's smoke and MoJo is on the floor holding his thingie.

They went to Silicon Heaven, of course!

[/Kryten]

just happy to have my tfp back...:)