[ldm-users] Weather2.admin.niu.edu update

[Gerry Creager]

No, but I recently burned a 4TB RAID shelf to the ground...

Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> Weather2's hard drive hung in there through the weekend, complaining about 
> unreadable sectors every 30 minutes, but it hung on. Now, however, it's 
> being dragged behind a car at high speed on a rope, just to see how far it 
> goes before it disintegrates. Just kidding...Monday morning sarcasm in 
> full mode. The new hard drive is now in; as I type this, it's being 
> formatted and installation of the OS should be underway by 18Z. Full 
> service on weather2 should be restored around 23Z, barring no unforseen 
> circumstances. If you have weather and weather3 as backups, this is an 
> informational outage notification only. Sorry for any inconvenience.
> 
> Has anyone tried dragging a hard drive down a road from a rope to see how 
> long it lasts? ;-)
> 
> Gilbert
> 
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