From davyd at madeley.id.au Wed Sep 13 18:12:43 2006 From: davyd at madeley.id.au (Davyd Madeley) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:12:43 +0800 Subject: [tech] StorageWorks bricks Message-ID: <20060913101243.GG32419@bridgewayconsulting.com.au> Matt has dropped off two boxes of StorageWorks bricks (30 in all) as would go in a piece of DEC hardware (such as old morwong or the Prioris chassis). The manifest is broken down as follows: 1x DS-RZ1FC-VW 36,4GB 10krpm 12x DS-RZ1EA-VW 18,2G 7,2krpm 4x DS-RZ1DF-VW 9,1GB 7,2krpm 4x RZ2DC-VP 9,1GB 10krpm 2x RZ2DC-VP 4,55GB 7,2krpm 7x RZ29B-VW 4,3GB 7,2krpm Without opening them, at least some of these disks are probably SCA inside. SCA 10krpm ones might be useful for manbo. Another option might be to get a storageworks enclosure of some description, and fill it full of disk, perhaps for mail (making mail a separate NFS mount to /home). --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Sep 17 01:00:38 2006 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 01:00:38 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] Mussel hung Message-ID: As I was getting ready to leave tonight mussel hardlocked (nothing on the console, unresponsive to input on network/serial/keyboard). Rebooted it and all seems OK. David Adam UCC Wheel Member zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Ask Me About Our SLA! From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sat Sep 23 22:22:19 2006 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:22:19 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] mermaid Message-ID: mermaid's /dev/hda died at about 3:15pm this afteron. Investigation by Bernard suggested a dead controller board, as it did not spin up, so he went home and got an identical drive he had lying about. One controller board swap later, and it's back up and running. It does have a lvm on raid 1 set up, so we should probably move some of its partitions over to that. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Sep 24 19:23:27 2006 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:23:27 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] Mussel's console Message-ID: Hi all, Some of you might have noticed that mussel has been rebooted a couple of times in the last week. Linux appears to have graduated to the domain of the Real UNIXes in that it works perfectly on the network, but deadlocks when you try to use the keyboard console for more than a few minutes. Wheel members should be aware that unless you want to hang the machine, stay the hell away from mussel on the KVM. Apologies to all those who had processes running - I know I lost a stack of rather useful shell history. I'll try not to do it again. Cheers, David Adam UCC Wheel Member zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Ask Me About Our SLA! From ian at mckellar.org Tue Sep 26 00:25:31 2006 From: ian at mckellar.org (Ian McKellar) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:25:31 -0700 Subject: [tech] mermaid In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <83cf34410609250925h5db219fagb5f7a18a7780d266@mail.gmail.com> Wow - I never knew that swapping controllers on hard disks was actually possible. I always thought it was along the lines of "the only thing left to do is try to swap the controllers over"... That's awesome! Ian On 9/23/06, James Andrewartha wrote: > mermaid's /dev/hda died at about 3:15pm this afteron. Investigation by > Bernard suggested a dead controller board, as it did not spin up, so he > went home and got an identical drive he had lying about. One controller > board swap later, and it's back up and running. It does have a lvm on raid > 1 set up, so we should probably move some of its partitions over to that. > > > -- > # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ > # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | > [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | > [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / > -- Ian McKellar ianloic on [flickr | aim | yahoo | skype] ian at mckellar.org on [email | jabber | msn] From adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Sep 26 21:35:00 2006 From: adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Adrian Chadd) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:35:00 +0800 Subject: [tech] mermaid In-Reply-To: <83cf34410609250925h5db219fagb5f7a18a7780d266@mail.gmail.com> References: <83cf34410609250925h5db219fagb5f7a18a7780d266@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20060926133500.GA5438@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006, Ian McKellar wrote: > Wow - I never knew that swapping controllers on hard disks was > actually possible. I always thought it was along the lines of "the > only thing left to do is try to swap the controllers over"... > > That's awesome! Things get a bit crazy if its remapped sectors.. :) Adrian > > Ian > > On 9/23/06, James Andrewartha wrote: > >mermaid's /dev/hda died at about 3:15pm this afteron. Investigation by > >Bernard suggested a dead controller board, as it did not spin up, so he > >went home and got an identical drive he had lying about. One controller > >board swap later, and it's back up and running. It does have a lvm on raid > >1 set up, so we should probably move some of its partitions over to that. > > > > > >-- > ># TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here > >will do \ > ># UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best > >| > >[ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide > >your | > >[ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux > >#231 / > > > > > -- > Ian McKellar > ianloic on [flickr | aim | yahoo | skype] > ian at mckellar.org on [email | jabber | msn]