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Woo hoo! I get

Woo hoo! I get to end the week on a great note. I was finally able to get the second hard drive back in the server around 5 PM this afternoon and get the RAID going again. (If you don't really want to read that last link, RAID is a way to use two drives so that they both mirror each other. If one becomes unusable, there is still one other drive with good data on it.) It feels good to have the server at one hundred percent again. I've learned a lot about RAID and the server this week, and I have even that much more confidence in it now. Sure am glad we're using http://www.thehoffmanfamily.com/ for our e-mail server.

The other challenge this week was to get the Schmidt's computer up and running again. They've been plagued with hard disk problems over that past few years. After putting yet another new drive in last week, it seemed the drive was bad again. Turns out it was the second drive in the machine that had gone bad. That's good news, as Fred leaves tomorrow for Venezuela for two weeks, and his wife really needs to have e-mail access while he's gone. Fred is the regional chief pilot and travels to the Latin America countries where MAF has programs so he can complete check rides with the pilots.