The Hive13 laser computer’s hard drive has died and gone to where ever dead computer hard drives go to roost. When I came in this evening the laser computer’s bios was reporting “Unknown device connected to SATA-0” and the bios was not recognizing it as a hard drive when I went into setup.
I left the hard drive sitting on top of the box, perhaps someone knows some hard drive voodoo that can bring it back from the grave, but it looks pretty dead to me.
For future reference, we do have a Hive13 dropbox.com account, if you have a dropbox account it is really, really easy to share a folder between your dropbox account and the Hive13 account. Once you do this you can just save your laser projects into that shared folder and they will magically appear on the laser cutter. Also, in the event of a future hard drive failure, your data will not be lost.
That all said, Hodapp & I spent the better part of this evening setting up a computer to use w/ the new CNC machines and reviving the Laser computer. Here is a quick rundown:
- Laser computer
- Installed working 250 GB hard drive
- Installed fresh copy of Windows XP SP3 & associated windows updates
- Installed LaserCut 5.3 & laser cutter drivers (it works)
- Installed the Hive13 dropbox on the machine.- CNC Computer
- Installed fresh copy of Windows XP SP3 & associated windows updates
- I think that is it, Hodapp handled this one
A member, John, stopped by to use the laser cutter. I promised to email him after the laser was working again, however I can not seem to find the scrap of cardboard he wrote his email address on… If you are the John that stopped down, I am sorry I lost your email, I just got the laser cutter up and working about 5 minutes ago. It is ready if you still want to stop on down tonight.