Undertoad • Nov 17, 2001 4:30 pm
Remember the Quantum drive that failed 2 months ago? This afternoon the OTHER Quantum drive on the system, purchased and installed with the earlier Quantum drive, also failed... in pretty much the exact same way (suddenly a TON of read errors).
I've managed to recover everything, and we're all cool now, although the bad drive is still in there (in here?) and I have to schedule an outage to replace it. Probably at 2am tonight while I wait for the meteors.
Y'know, at this point, I feel really secure with the system, more secure than I've ever felt. There have been times when the Cellar hardware was co-located at an office in downtown Philly. That meant when stuff went wrong, I had to drive down there IF they were open, hoping that it was something I could solve right there. One time a failure happened after hours and I couldn't get to the machine until Monday.
But now, I have a spare motherboard, spare drive, spare cables and even a spare machine. Everything's close by so if I find an error, I can work on it with ease.
Bottom line - there were a few hours of down time, but everything's fine now and everything will continue to be fine.
I've managed to recover everything, and we're all cool now, although the bad drive is still in there (in here?) and I have to schedule an outage to replace it. Probably at 2am tonight while I wait for the meteors.
Y'know, at this point, I feel really secure with the system, more secure than I've ever felt. There have been times when the Cellar hardware was co-located at an office in downtown Philly. That meant when stuff went wrong, I had to drive down there IF they were open, hoping that it was something I could solve right there. One time a failure happened after hours and I couldn't get to the machine until Monday.
But now, I have a spare motherboard, spare drive, spare cables and even a spare machine. Everything's close by so if I find an error, I can work on it with ease.
Bottom line - there were a few hours of down time, but everything's fine now and everything will continue to be fine.