I just walk in and say ‘Good Morning’ in passing, no need for an answer or waiting for them to stop talking. Then I go settle in for the work and if they want to chat they will probably talk to you then. If you were there first I guess you can take the initiative.
Does it have a hardware RAID card? You may have to flash it to IT mode. The ‘lost’ drive may be just a parity drive?
Personally, I just looked at my firewall’s logs on the WG port and the handshake info. Once you have a handshake I don’t think there’s much that can go wrong on the WG side, maybe there’s a problem with lost packets or network roaming?
First time hearing o7 as ‘nazi salute’, I only know it as a ‘military/captain’s salute’ out of Eve Online, Elite and some milsim games
Universal law of tradesmen: They come when you least expect them, and when you expect them they don’t come.
It’s known as the ‘Brazil nut effect’, technically apparently Granular Convection: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granular_convection It’s apparently not fully explained, but theories suggest things like buoyancy, or that larger particles are blocked from sinking by smaller particles, which on the other hand can slip below the larger ones.