Negatory on that outlay of bread, toothsome comrade. :-/
I've already got eight extra $2 Savvios on hand, ATA/whatever on the Tempo Trio, fast SCSI II and 1080p/DVD decoding on the cards already into the MetalMiTower G3/DT edition running under OS9.
Once all the data from the HDD from the QS'02 with the beige-borked drive blocks is backed up, it's DiskWarrior time! If all goes well, the repaired, backed up drive goes into the FireWire enclosure and onto the Pismo500, my temporary main workstation. It's booting into OS9 on the tiny drive from the PDQ for now, the QS'02 (partition size limitations researched this time around) as the main boot drive for the ClamshellCutie makeover of Beater3.
I'll worry about long term backup solutions after I get the QS'02 a new PSU and a whole bunch of other things on the to do/to pay for list accomplished.
Chalk the RAID 5 notion up to the Silly Savvio Hacking Session that made my Thanksgiving staycation so much fun.
The best thing to come out of that bit of idle time madness is the backup config in the piccie above that lets me get the MMT/G3 off of the rubber feets on its "side" and back upright on the rubber feets on its "Bottom" so it stops hogging so much desktop real estate!
I've come to terms with the fact that I've always been a maker/modifier of real things IRL . I'm a hardware hacker from back in the day when I did it for utlilty and now ISL (In Surreal Life) for fun and the occasional feedback I get in my readonkulous hacks threads here at the barracks.
I've always wanted to learn electronics and to get under the hood of Linux, but I'm prioritizing the dreams for the next thirty years or so. That's if I'm blessed to live up to longevity standards set by my forbears.
The ATOM board is my training wheeled vehicle for learning the GIMP for when I can snag an inexpensive board/proc to actually let me RUN the GIMP.
Meanwhile, I'm trying to downsize the IRL dream projects to downsized shop tools and facilities. While I'm at that, I'm trying to optimize that setup for hacking playtime here ISL. [
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