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RE: hayden-7
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anne Silvester)
Fri Feb 25 08:42:31 2011
From: Anne Silvester <silvesa@MIT.EDU>
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Thanks John.
Anne
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-----Original Message-----
From: John T Guy [mailto:jtguy@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:53 PM
To: Andrew M Boardman; Thomas Smith
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU; acis-team@MIT.EDU; release-team@MIT.EDU
Subject: RE: hayden-7
Folks;
AS many of you may know someone from the library Hayden staff suggested that we need not use
anchor pad workstation security etc. in this area. I was never in agreement with this foolishness. When
I wanted to put keyed alarmed on these and other workstations, no one would back me on this.
I will ask Chuck King to order original Dimm sets for each Hayden nworkstation and the Athena Cluster will install
this ASAP. i will personally lock each workstation cover so that the cover cannot be removed unless
you have a key or a metal cutting tool. If anyone have a problem with this, let me know now, else lets do it.
Cheers
John T Guy
IT Deployment & Maintenance Services
Information Services and Technology
Installation/Spaces/Athena Clusters/ITDM (acis-team@mit.edu)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tel: 617-258-8032
Email: jtguy@mit.edu
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From: andrew m. boardman [amb@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 1:46 PM
To: Thomas Smith
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU; acis-team@MIT.EDU; release-team@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: hayden-7
> However,upon trying to do so we received this message.
>
> Unsupported memory configuration.
> I did try to f1 and f2 without any success.
That's odd; I've seen that message from hayden-7 as well, but continuing
the boot attempt (with, I think, F1) worked OK for me.
The basic problem is that someone stole half of its memory, and slot #1
is now empty, and having memory only in slot 2 is indeed not a supported
config. (It still worked, though.) It should presumably get a new 2GB
DIMM in slot 1, but you could also just move the DIMM from slot 2 to slot
1 and you'll stop getting the error message, but the machine will have
half the memory it should have.
Note also that hayden-6 and hayden-8 were also messed up when I looked at
them a while back, and (since all three are reporting only 2GB) I think
they still are. See below for a bit more background...
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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:33:16 EDT
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
cc: jweiss@MIT.EDU
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
Subject: likely RAM theft from three Hayden cluster machines
Hi, all. In the process of checking out the install problems on
hayden-5, I noticed that hayden-6, hayden-7, and hayden-8 are all missing
some of their RAM.
In particular, -6 has had both original 2GB DIMMS removed, and -7 and -8
have each had the easier-to-remove DIMM removed. Hayden-6 still boots
beacuse it has a pair of 1GB DIMMs installed instead.
My theory is that somebody with a 2GB machine stole 8GB from the cluster
machines and left behind their original 2GB.
Note that none of these machines have AnchorPads or are otherwise locked
down.
If my theory about what happened is correct, there's at least some chance
that the two 1GB DIMMS in -6 are traceable to their original owner.
fyi,
andrew
