[1553] in Hotline Meeting
ZBT hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mjhostet@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Aug 28 08:13:55 1990
From: mjhostet@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: rita@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, patl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 90 08:14:01 EDT
Pat, here is my description of our current hardware situation. I thought I'd let you see if I missed anything or said anything ignorant.
Hello, I heard you would like a more complete description of our
hardware problems, and their specific causes.
1) keyboards:
We have two keyboards out. No, these were not damaged by someone
spilling drinks. What happened is somewhat embarassing, but I would
call it an "act of God". Over the summer our air conditioner broke
and the water it condensed failed to drain properly. Consequently,
the condensed water was sprayed a short distance into the room.
Sadly, this happened late at night and by the time I walked in in the
morning there was sufficient water on two nearby keyboards to damage
them. The A/C was promptly fixed, and fortunately no other hardware
was damaged. I am aware that we might be charged if a keyboard is
damaged through carelessness/incompetence (like spilling drinks) but I
don't think we deserve to be charged for this; we are very careful
about keeping our cluster neat, and what happened was something I
could not forsee or prevent. It was an accident, and we apologize.
2) kingtut:
kingtut is fine, and needs no service. Any current hotline reports
about kingtut can be ignored.
3) mrfreeze:
The site drive on mrfreeze appears to be in bad shape. It refused to
boot, commenting about several bad sectors. We ran fsck but to no
avail. Finall, we ran rabads to attempt to patch it, but it found
several hundred bad sectors and gave up. mrfreeze is off right now,
and I can't recall the exact text of the error messages, but I suspect
you know what I'm talking about.
Of course, if you need more information just ask.
-Mat
