Sat Nov  4 10:21:11 EDT 2017

Slept from eleven-thirty to nine. Woke briefly around four.

High of fifty-two today. Rain likely in the afternoon.

Goals:
- Clean up and re-cable network stuff, properly integrate Mikrotik
  Done.
- Install Debian on NUC
  Attempted.
- Go stuff

Vacuumed, watered plants, dusted, etc.

I suspect I unfairly blamed OpenBSD for screwing up the NUC after the last upgrade.
Looks like it might have been a hardware problem (hopefully the ADATA SSD is bad, and not the NUC disk controller).
...and nope, it's not the hard drive. Either I've coincidentally hit both an OpenBSD and Debian bug or it's a NUC hardware problem.
Damn.
The install goes fine, but the reboot fails.
The errors didn't stay on the screen long, but a few snippets to search:

	failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
	Emask 0x56 (ATA bus error)
	status: { DRDY }

And, at the end, some ext4 errors.

It seems weird that a SATA cable or controller that worked fine for weeks or months suddenly failed after the OpenBSD upgrade.
But it also seems weird that OpenBSD and Linux would develop sudden incompatibilities with the hardware.

Can I even buy replacements for the proprietary NUC SATA cable?
http://www.microsatacables.com/intel-nuc-ssd-internal-22-pin-sata-replacement-cable-harness
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000008571/mini-pcs.html
If the cable doesn't fix it, I guess I'm in the market for a new machine.

In any case my apologies to OpenBSD.

Quite a thunderstorm this evening.

Lunch: coffee, carrots, chicken pot pie
Dinner: pizza