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Friday, August 29, 2003

SCP and OpenBSD Bug

Found an interesting bug tonight while using scp to send files from cygwin on my PIII windoze box to my laptop running OpenBSD 3.3. Really messed up the keyboard for me on the laptop! Couldn't change to lower case for nothing! Was able to ssh there, login as user, su to root, and then reboot. That got rid of the problem, but I'd like to try to find out how to avoid the problem in the future. Anyone reads this entry, let me know if you know anything about the problem and how to fix or avoid it.

SCSI Drives for HP LC II NetServer

Ordered some adapters for my Seagate Barracuda drives. They're made to install in an array & lack external power ports, for one thing. Bought a 4 pack of adapters on eBay, put one extra harddrive inside an empty 5 1/4 bay, set the scsi pinouts on it, hooked up the power and scsi cable, booted, and everything worked perfectly. That means I'll have 9GB of extra storage, independent of the 17GB RAID 5 array, to use as a backup, eliminating the need for a tape drive. I still have an old tape drive with a 6 tape changer, but where the cable adapter changes from scsi 1 to scsi 2, it won't fit between the back of the hot swappable drive array where the extra connections are, and the power supply. Guess that'll be the next thing I search for on eBay. Anyway, about ready to start the OpenBSD install. Just need to do a little more reading up. Still running OpenBSD on my old Toshiba too, and feelng sorry for all my windoze friends with their virus problems. That said seriously, too, not being a typical windoze basher.