{"id":7698,"date":"2017-08-04T08:56:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T12:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7698"},"modified":"2017-08-04T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T12:57:10","slug":"tardis-observatory-goings-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/tardis-observatory-goings-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Tardis Observatory goings on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085207.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085207-299x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085207-299x215.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085207-150x108.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085207-768x552.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085207-1023x735.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis has been our constant companion for a month now&#8230; a snake in the observatory.  Ewwwww.<br \/>\nAt least he still leaves fairly easily when pushed out the door.<br \/>\nThe Torus telescope control computer is named Galileo and is a crica 1999 pentium 3 class system with an 80GB IDE drive that is also about 15 years old, toggled to pretend it is only a 32GB drive, that being the limit of the ASUS p2-99 motherboards BIOS.  The drive gets very hot when spinning, typical of its era.  We decided to try and replace it with a 32GB SATA SSD drive with an IDE to SATA adapter.<\/p>\n<p>The $13 IDE to SATA Adapter was:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kingwin ADP-06 SATA to IDE Bridge Board\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.ca\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_W009M9neFOikCo&#038;asin=B002SZDOM6&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085544.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085544-299x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085544-299x225.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085544-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085544-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085544-1023x771.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>This was the $30 drive we settled on:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.ca\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_wEPrGBrfFpiUEv&#038;asin=B00W3HKSPU&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The software used to clone the drive was this: Crucial Data Transfer Suite with and Apricorn USB to SATA dongle  and EZ Gig IV cloning software.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085540.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085540-228x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085540-228x299.jpg 228w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085540-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085540-768x1007.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085540-780x1023.jpg 780w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085540.jpg 1968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085838.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085838-299x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"221\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085838-299x221.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085838-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085838-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170731_085838-1023x756.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took 6 attempts before everything finally worked out.  The software has the ability to resize a larger drive to a smaller drive if the space is unused, but it takes time.  With the added strangeness of a 32GB limit jumper on the 80GB drive, the drive adapter and linux partitions with some complex setup, the first few times did not work out.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it did start up, and continued to do so over 5 more reboot tests.  Yay!  Less power used out in the observatory, a faster newer drive, cooler, and less prone to suddenly fail!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been our constant companion for a month now&#8230; a snake in the observatory. Ewwwww. At least he still leaves fairly easily when pushed out the door. The Torus telescope control computer is named Galileo and is a crica 1999 pentium 3 class system with an 80GB IDE drive that is also about 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7704,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions\/7704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}