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Vorlon.mit.edu returns to service



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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 02:40:49 -0500
From: Jered J Floyd <jered>


   After 64 hours of downtime, vorlon.mit.edu (aka narn.mit.edu) has
returned to service.  At 10:30 am Wednesday morning, vorlon suffered
a SCSI controller failure.  (This was originally determined to have
been a hard drive failure, however futher testing indicated that the
SCSI controller was likely to blame.)  On Thursday, Buslogic was
contacted and a BT-946C Rev E card was cross shipped out of warranty
to arrive the next day.  This arrived via FedEx Friday morning, and
after installation and testing vorlon returned to service at 2 AM
Saturday morning.

   While vorlon was down, I also replaced the processor cooling fan
which was likely to fail. I also replaced the power supply with a
300W+300W redundant power supply, as the previous power supply's fan
had failed several weeks ago.

   I apologize for any inconvenience caused by this outage.  My
hardware is now required to send me e-mail at least 1 week before
it will fail. :-)

- --Jered
jered@mit.edu
root@vorlon.mit.edu

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