Pete French wrote:
On 05/05/2019 04:06, Michelle Sullivan wrote:
Which I find interesting in itself as I have a machine running 9.3
which started life as a 5.x (which tells you how old it is) and it’s
still running on the same *compaq* raid5 with UFS on it... with the
original drives, with a hot spare that still hasn’t been used... and
the only thing done to it hardware wise is I replaced the motherboard
12 months ago as it just stopped POSTing and couldn’t work out what
failed...never had a drive corruption barring the fscks following
hard power issues... it went with me from Brisbane to Canberra, back
to Brisbane by back of car, then to Malta, back from Malta and is
still downstairs... it’s my primary MX server and primary resolver
for home and handles around 5k email per day..
Heh, Ok, thats cool :-) Some of my old HP RAID systems started life as
Compaq ones - you never installed the firmware update which simply
changed the name it printed on boot then ?
Umm, does it change the big startup "COMPAQ" graphic? If not then
dunno... if it does... nope :)
My personal server with the dead battery has been going at least 12
years. Had to replace the drives (and HP SAS drives are still silly
prices sadly), one of the onboard ether ports has died, but otherwise
still going strong.
IIRC i've put 3 new clock batteries in over the years... and it's all
SCSI... 18GB (no SAS on the machine) :P ... (in fact, 32bit and not
capable of driving a SAS card - unless you can get PCI or ISA SAS cards :P )
Not had the long distance travel of yours though. I did ship some
machines to Jersey once, but boat, and all the drives which had been
on the crossing failed one by one within a few months of arriving.
Makes me wonder how rough the sea that crossing actually was.
The biggest issue I had was the idiots who unloaded the container at
Customs.. not saying much except they loaded it backwards (literally)
... a 3KVA ups (with batteries in it) was put at the top and by the time
it got from Botany to me it had made its way to the bottom...
Those were in a Compaq RAID pedestal too. After that I shipped
machines, but took the drives in my hand luggage on planes always.
Actiually, not sure they would let me do that these days, havent
triued in years.
Good question.
--
Michelle Sullivan
http://www.mhix.org/
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