So, I'm posting for two reasons:

1. I want to "claim my blog" at Technorati. To do that, I need to post this HTML: Technorati Profile.
2. I want to verify that this machine, redefine.dyndns.org is still working.

Why wouldn't my machine still be working, you ask? Well, yesterday I made a shady Craigslist-style deal, and acquired some new RAM for this machine. When I went to install it today, I found that one of the Western Digital hard drives that I have in my new mirrored array had failed. Of course, I never bothered to setup the monitoring in FreeBSD, so who knows how long it has been dead.

Anywho, the RAID certainly protected my data, but trying to boot with just one disk in the array was a little funky. Apparently, when my RAID adapter has one drive missing from its mirrored drive set, it reverts to JBOD mode. When FreeBSD sees this, it rebuilds /dev, and now my disk shows up as /dev/ad4s1a instead of /dev/ar0s1a.

Yuck.

Anyways, it is all working now, I think. And when Western Digital's website comes back online, I'll see if I can RMA my drive.

-Andy.