Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 21:00:38 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@wcarchive.cdrom.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, tech@cdrom.com Subject: Re: To comemorate ftp.cdrom.com's resurrection Message-ID: <199810050400.VAA05982@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 09:25:36 %2B0930." <19981005092536.K2545@freebie.lemis.com>
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>(moved to -chat) > >On Sunday, 4 October 1998 at 4:03:59 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> (and these new Mylex RAID arrays look like it was well-worth the downtime) >> I've rolled and uploaded a new 3.0 BETA snapshot, > >How about a snapshot of the new ftp.cdrom.com? In fact I did take a couple of digital pictures of the machine before I left. I'll see about getting one online at www.cdrom.com RSN. Note that this configuration will be rather short lived; an upgrade to a Xeon/400 is planned in about a month or so and I'll also be moving the whole machine to a new co-lo facility at the same time. This past week has been quite hellish for me. Everything imaginable that could go wrong, did. I had more than 10 contigency plans for various possible, but unlikely problems, and I invoked all of those and a few more that I had to develop on the spot. It started with my flight being two hours late. Then I lost my wallet with ID and credit cards in the Taxi as I arrived at the hotel. I found myself 500 miles from home with no money. no ID, and no place to stay; not a pleasant experiance. I did eventually recover it, but not until I had put blocks on the credit cards and sweated for several hours. The problems with the upgrade ranged the full spectrum - from the RAID controller being damaged in shipping to the BIOS not being able to boot a 125GB "disk". At one point I lost _all_ of the files on wcarchive (!!! this is BAD with a capital "B"), but after spending a full day on the problem, I was able to recover the screwed-up RAID sets. Suggestion: If you ever get a Mylex RAID controller, DON'T try to reorganize the distribution of disk drives on the various SCSI channels after you've already put irreplaceable data on them. Although the RAID controller is supposed to properly recognize the moving of drives to different channels/SCSI IDs automatically, the firmware has serious bugs and will screw you over and scramble your configuration! Anyway, I apologize for the extended downtime. In the end, sheer determination won out and I made it all work. The new hardware is (so far) working flawlessly and now I get to look forward to the next upgrade. :-) -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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