[astro] Re: [TICKET #23550] milkyway down

[Carlos Varela]

Steve,

Can you please give us an estimate of the cost of the replacement  
parts?  Are we talking about buying a hard disk?  We need to figure  
out where to get the money from, and it depends on the amount...  
thanks for your time,

- Carlos.

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Carlos A. Varela      <cvarela at cs.rpi.edu>
Associate Professor
Worldwide Computing Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Travis Desell wrote:

> I think getting replacement parts ASAP would be a good idea for the  
> time being.  We should be able to still use that in addition to  
> whatever other hardware we order right?
>
> Any of the actual professors working on the project, could you  
> please send out whatever info we need to order new hard disks?
>
> --Travis
>
>
> On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:38 AM, NATS wrote:
>
>> This is an automated email notification of an updated ticket:
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>> From: lindss2, 2009-11-10 10:38:40.541221
>> We, along with sysadmins in other departments, have been losing a  
>> lot of disks lately which I attribute to the vibration from  
>> construction.
>>
>> The drive that is having the most trouble at the moment contains  
>> the root filesystem as well as the database, and is over 2 years  
>> out of warrranty.  One of the two drives which make up /export/ 
>> share1 complains that it has lost mirroring, so it's running in  
>> degraded mode as well.  In your opinion, is it better to try to  
>> kludge something together quickly to last until new hardware is  
>> available for milkyway, or to get replacement parts for what you  
>> have?
>>
>>
>> - labstaff at cs.rpi.edu
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