Category: Colo
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Avoriaz move
Avoriaz has changed IPs. I have changed any records I have access to change, but if I can’t change your DNS then you need to. Avoriaz is now in my flat. I have a new colo box in Manchester that everything is moving too. Fun fun!
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Welcome to Morgins 🙂
Well, after a bit of playing with add-in VGA and USB cards to try and get the IBM Netfinity 4000r installed I had to admit defeat. Having installed a base Linux OS on the hard disk the BIOSes virus warning wanted to tell me the boot sector had changed (I know, I just loaded GRUB!)…
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Keyboardless install
So, the IBM Netfinity 4000r off of EBay turns up – rah! Problem is it doesn’t have PS/2 connectors or a video out – it has a proprietary IBM thing I don’t have the adapter for. A PCI graphics card works fine though and the system boots of CD, but I can’t find a live…
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Avoriaz Lives
Okay, so it shouldn’t have taken 6 weeks, but it took that long to get the firwmare updated on the Intel SRCU31 RAID card (5th box I tried, first 4 the card wouldn’t work – needed a long PCI slot thingie). But yes, Avoriaz is back up. Things are almost correct, mail is being feed…
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Intel RAID Controllers *grrr*
So yes, the problem that caused Avoriaz’s RAID to die is a known issue with the Intel SRCU31 card I have. Intel kindly produce a “how to recover your RAID” document to help you out. Step one, upgrade to latest firmware – okay, easy… or so you think. The Intel RAID detection DOS app thing…
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Avoriaz latest
Sorry for the lack of update on Avoriaz, but no news is good news this time. The new SATA RAID has been installed and is working fine. I have the old SCSI RAID and RAID card at home now, so I will attempt data recovery probably tonight. If that goes well a data sync will…
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Hardware Hates Me
So, yes, given the issues with Avoriaz being down I thought I’d buy a new pair of disks and a controller, install a new OS and swap the lot. Then I can bring back the old RAID for data recovery. A fine plan, but something about the two new SATA disks or the SATA controller…
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Avoriaz Update
Well, ‘Plan B’ failed. The rescue disk kernel panics as soon as it queries the RAID card. Pile of shite Intel crap… So, all that is left to do is for me to get down to London, pulls the disks and card out and bring them back to Bath for further debugging. Not fun.
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Avoriaz issues
If you don’t have a shell on Avoriaz you can ignore this… Following a power failure (yes, it is UPSed) late Saturday night at the colocation where Avoriaz is housed, the machine will not reboot due to a RAID problem. It isn’t anything I can fix remotely, so Avoriaz will be down until at least…