[1504] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: machine room orginization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Sep 24 02:23:50 1994
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: star-maintainers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Sep 1994 22:55:27 EDT."
<199409240255.WAA20868@the-other-woman.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 02:23:09 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Ive noticed that after the initial installation of tables in SIPB's
> section of the machine room a couple of years ago, it has gotten
> slowly less organized. IMHO we should try to straighten things out
> so it is relatively easy to follow cables, etc. It occured to me
> that we might want to start with the SS20's, before they became
> production machines (although I understand that the news transport
> machine is already doing some production service.)
> What are people's feelings about this?
I don't see any point in it right now; it's already pretty easy to
trace the SS20 cables. Our section of the machine room is a complete
mess in general, but we don't have much hope of cleaning it up until
we get rid of the DS3100, the DS5000/200, and the RS6000/520. At that
point, it's questionable whether we should cause an outage for all of
our services just so we can fiddle with cables. We can, however, make
an attempt to rearrange the machines without cutting off power.
