Dear WeatherCat subscribers to this irregular darn
"mellar-drama," . . . . .
There has been perhaps a breakthrough event in this "cold case" . . . . .
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I have been seeing a slow increase in interruptions between my console and my Weather Envoy. In a seemingly unrelated event, I discovered that the hard drive that is attached to my Mom's iMac for Time Machine backups wasn't working properly. I attempted to reformat the drive and . . . .
da' patient didn't recover from the procedure.
It was a very old drive so no big surprise there. Still, I prefer to have a backup of all computers at all time, so I rummaged around and located another old drive that would pinch hit until a replacement backup drive arrived. This drive was on standby for my previous MacBook Pro which remains on standby should I have have any need for a portable computer. Since I was lazy, I simply rerouted the USB connection from my old MacBook to my Mom's iMac which are on the same table and turned on the reserve drive.
After doing this, I had even more trouble with communications failures between my console and my Weather Envoy, having two in 12 hours. After the second one, I became suspicious. The reserve hard drive was much closer to the Envoy - coincidence? I turned the drive off and planned to just run it once a day to back up my Mom's iMac until the new drive arrived.
This afternoon, I turned on the reserve drive and it . . . . didn't mount. This drive and the backup drive that had failed the day before were the same make, model, and capacity. They were most likely bought at the same time. I assume both drives were close to death and I just pushed them over the edge.
I haven't had any problems with the connection to the Envoy since turning off the drive yesterday. It is early, but it is a plausible explanation for what was going on. A dying hard drive might well generate the sort of radio frequency interference that would disrupt the connection between Davis components.
So stay tuned! ![](http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/tune_in_TV_emoticon.gif)
It appears that an arrest in this case won't be possible, but after all, that will save on legal costs!! . . .
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Cheers, Edouard
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