Fly-Run-Walk—>Forever; Day378

He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength [causing it to multiply and making it to abound]. [II Cor. 12:9.]  Even youths shall faint and be weary, and [selected] young men shall feebly stumble and fall exhausted; But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired. [Heb. 12:1-3.] Isa 40:29-31

Power to weak and not to the strong.  Power to the defeated and the lowly and not to those who are great and successful.  So encouraging that during the times of our weaknesses, we are given the strength to go on.  There is only one requirement- we have to wait.  Wait on His signal, wait on His commands and wait on His leadership.  Wait = praying, listening and more listening and listen without doing any drastic decision.  Let the whole situation boils down to a cooler mood, then you act.

I’ve been tasked lately to perform a data recovery on a dead hard drive and I failed.  Then I remember that I have one dead SCSI drive from one of my Dell server that will not spin and it gives out an error “drive timeout-waiting to initialized”.  I ran a Seagate diagnostic application and the software was unable to even recognize the drive.  I had this problem a year ago and I gave up on the drive but kept it in my office.  Part of my experimentation at home was to dissect/disassemble a broken part (anything usually that i want to open) and I remember that I have this dead SCSI drive just waiting to be thrown away.  So today, I decided to perform a surgery and see if I can learn something.  Miraculously, after I put back together all the parts and then ran the test, the drive started working.

Lesson Learned:
1. Dead drive does not mean that the drive is dead.
2. Try separating the controller from the mechanical part, it could just be a poor electrical contact
3. When buying drives, stick to one brand, one model so during recovery, you can just swap controllers.  (I think this is how the professionals do it, swapping controllers, mechanical parts and spindle)

MIT (Most Important Task)
1. 12Mile Indoor cycling (42’F outside)
2. More hard drive recovery
3.

0000, Sleep
0100, Sleep
0200, Sleep
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0500, Sleep
0600, Sleep
0700, Breakfast; journal;
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1000, Dental appointment
1100, Shopping for used Dell M140 LCD
1200, Shopping
1300, Shopping
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1500, 12Mile indoor cycling +listening to Level4 Living Part2.
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1700, More hard drive recovery
1800, Hard drive recovery
1900, Hard drive recovery
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2400, Sleep