[WriteLog] Converting a disk to NTFS

[Allan Briscoe]

So , this was right after winning the superball lottery rite ???  hi hi
Allan B VE7XB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "W0UN--John Brosnahan" <shr at medinaec.com>
To: "Bob McCormick W1QA" <writelog at w1qa.com>
Cc: <WriteLog at contesting.com>
Sent: January 22, 2003 9:08 AM
Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Converting a disk to NTFS


> 
> >
> >If a disk sector becomes bad (ugh!) ... and your data
> >is on it - doesn't really matter what file system you
> >are running.  (A RAID based logging computer?! <grin>)
> 
> Thought about raid!  But what I am doing and didn't mention
> is building two identical systems that will be networked together
> with the second system logging in parallel.   Sort of a
> hot standby!  Guess I could add a KVM switch and if the
> main computer fails just dump the keyboard, video, mouse
> over to the backup system!
> 
> This is the same logic that got me into trouble a decade ago
> (but at least this is cheaper).  I had a 781 and an Alpha 87A
> and we won a couple of plaques so I got worried that if we
> were on track to win and something died I would be out of
> the race.  So I added a second 781 and 87A for backup.  Then
> we started doing some preliminary 2-radio stuff and I realized
> that if one of the setups died we would be back to the old
> days of a single radio.  So I added a THIRD 781 and 87A
> as backup to the first two!
> 
> With W0UA doing most of the operating we won about a
> dozen plaques in the ARRL and CQ DX tests.   Not too shabby
> considering we only entered about 25 contests during the 1990s.
> So we had almost a 50% win rate.  Of course I was doing
> mostly single band stuff during that period and choosing the
> band that was forecast to be the hottest for that part of the
> sunspot cycle.  Still, from Colorado, it was not too shabby.
> Multiple plaques on 10, 15, 20 and 40.  Figured we didn't have
> a chance for anything on 160 or 80--but the higher bands were
> winnable from CO under the right circumstances and with
> big enough stacked antennas.
> 
> WriteLog is just the next step (after our move to south TX) to
> upgrade the station.
> 
> 73--John  W0UN 
> 
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