While we're at it...
Nov. 9th, 2002 04:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tugrikSo I disassemble the old Canon server's corpse. It's HOT in there. Evidently a fan or two gave out sometime over the last half-year and the box was experiencing General Thermal Issues(tm). This is most likely the source of the failure. Well, that and overall age of the system. I was pushing MTBF's on more than one sub-component in there.
I get the drives out, and transplant them into a trusty box we keep around as a spare. Some fiddling, some finagling -- including a mystery error with a SCSI cable -- and they go online. Eager to get the latest-greatest (more than the last backup), I quickly copy the data over from old drives to new. Whew. Data is safe. I remove the drives (and the scsi controller they were on) and put that in a storage box, to hold on to for the while. They'll eventually be destroyed once the data is safely on new systems, running, and backed up. These old drives deserve an honorable death. All that's left is to button the donor box (Clockworks, it's called) back up and get to down to data repositioning.
"Before we close it... let's add some memory... I don't like the way it's been swapping..." <-- Famous Last Words.
An hour later and much (explicitive in an unprintable monoceral language) fussing later, and Clockworks is dead. Paws-to-the-sky, tongue hanging out, little x's for eyes. Ready to serve as a prop on Scrapheap Challenge. Suitable for framing, but not computing. You get the picture.
I was only one more reboot away from getting a 24 hour outage into the last stage of repair, and now we get to rebuild Clockworks from the ground up... and since it's 4am, resume in the morning. Grr. GrrrrrRrRrRRr. Ahwell.
I get the drives out, and transplant them into a trusty box we keep around as a spare. Some fiddling, some finagling -- including a mystery error with a SCSI cable -- and they go online. Eager to get the latest-greatest (more than the last backup), I quickly copy the data over from old drives to new. Whew. Data is safe. I remove the drives (and the scsi controller they were on) and put that in a storage box, to hold on to for the while. They'll eventually be destroyed once the data is safely on new systems, running, and backed up. These old drives deserve an honorable death. All that's left is to button the donor box (Clockworks, it's called) back up and get to down to data repositioning.
"Before we close it... let's add some memory... I don't like the way it's been swapping..." <-- Famous Last Words.
An hour later and much (explicitive in an unprintable monoceral language) fussing later, and Clockworks is dead. Paws-to-the-sky, tongue hanging out, little x's for eyes. Ready to serve as a prop on Scrapheap Challenge. Suitable for framing, but not computing. You get the picture.
I was only one more reboot away from getting a 24 hour outage into the last stage of repair, and now we get to rebuild Clockworks from the ground up... and since it's 4am, resume in the morning. Grr. GrrrrrRrRrRRr. Ahwell.
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Date: 2002-11-09 08:44 am (UTC)Interesting stuff! Thanks for telling me about it.
Date: 2002-11-09 02:40 pm (UTC)If that Canon was old enough to use SIMM memory, I've seen those things fail from dirty/corroded contacts. Sometimes you'll even see little dents in the SIMM edge connector where the spring contact pins were pressed into it. You can get strange and erratic behavior from a computer so afflicted.
Good luck with it!