From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 30 0: 2:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A0A37B401 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:02:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8230243EC2 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:02:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from lafn.org (host-66-81-23-130.rev.o1.com [66.81.23.130]) by zoon.lafn.org (8.12.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id gBU82JFt021748 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:02:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:02:18 -0800 Subject: Water Damage Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) From: Doug Hardie To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <916F009B-0A35-11D7-9E57-000393681B06@lafn.org> Message-Id: <04740E73-1BCD-11D7-B574-000393681B06@lafn.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My church had a fire in the computer room today. The equipment was not directly damaged by the fire as the sprinkler system put it out very quickly. However, the sprinklers ran directly on the equipment for a couple hours. There are several servers, routers, hubs etc. Most of them had water pouring out when we picked them up. All but one spare router were on during this. I have carefully dried out all the units. However, one of the hubs appears to be toast. Some of the burning residue fell down and was pulled into the hub by the fan and is imbedded into some of its chips. I didn't bother with cleaning that one up. However, there is no visible damage to the remaining gear. I am letting it sit tonight and will try a power cycle on it tomorrow. Presuming that any of it is still working, the question is can it be trusted for unattended operations anymore? While the cost of most of it is not significant, the configuration time is. It would be much easier to use it rather than set up new gear. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message