Contributed by phessler on from the wrath-of-bob dept.
The rack that undeadly resides in was undergoing extensive surgery yesterday morning, including putting some new stuff in it. During this time thanks to the completely retarded cable management crap hanging off the back of these machines (any of you with D'Hell 650 1U's with it on
it feel my pain) I bounced the power on it. Scheisse. Daniel called
me on it once I was back on line and I reset it, Unfortunately I don't think it was up for more than half an hour when it happened again, thanks
to more minions digging in the rack. I didn't see it go offline
again, and didn't notice until I woke up this morning.
Anyway, the D'hell cable management crud is now in the slag heap
in the corner of the center and I'm adding the machine to my monitor
stuff (my bad that it wasn't) so I get called when it dissapears.
Mea Culpa
-Bob
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By Daniel Hartmeier (62.65.145.30) daniel@benzedrine.cx on www.benzedrine.cx/dhartmei.html
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By Bob Beck (129.128.92.237) beck@openbsd.org on http//www.linuxchick.com/
Taking care of it? Heck, I'm the bull in the china shop!
Anyway, sorry for the disruption.
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By Anthony (68.145.111.152) on
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By Bob Beck (68.148.128.240) beck@openbsd.org on
Sensitivity training ya know. It's not polite to call them slaves.
minions is so much gentler, yet still conveys that sense of
nobody-will-care-where-I-hide-the-body
By Anonymous Coward (64.132.107.3) on
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By Brad (67.69.154.29) brad at comstyle dot com on
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By Bob Beck (68.148.128.240) beck@openbsd.org on
from all of those vendors. You should know better Brad.
You simply have to know what you're ordering.
To Dell's credit, I've never had any other vendor where
I can buy a machine speculatively, and then they've put crap
in it that OpenBSD can't support, I simply do their "30 days no questions asked" - send it back, tell them why, and they don't even blink.
I've done that twice now and gotten no hassles. - Probably a big
reason that I actually do buy a lot of their stuff.
And as far as IBM goes. Same thing. Some stuff is crap, and some of
it's great. I love my 325E's.
By Bob Beck (68.148.128.240) beck@openbsd.org on
Just the cable management crud that comes with the 650.
Every vendor, even that which makes good stuff, has some
bits that were obviously thought up by a crack-addled rhesus monkey.
I wish they made amd64's - I'd probably buy even more of their stuff :)
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By Anonymous Coward (216.99.229.84) on
then speaking of cable management:
Dell Engineering has determined that the following Tyco cables are suspected of causing issues when attached to a PV220.
The Tyco cables can be easily identified by checking the high-density connector that attaches to the PERC. A black covering on this end of the cable indicates it is a Tyco cable. Amphenol uses a metallic cover (Figure 1). In addition, Tyco cables were manufactured using two (2) different suppliers for the raw cable - MADISON and COPARTNER. The supplier name is printed approximately every 12 inches on the cable. Only Tyco cables using the COPARTNER raw cable are suspect of being marginal regarding SCSI impedance requirements.
a. Dell 1H18x cables using the COPARTNER raw cable have been purged from manufacturing and only the Amphenol cables are shipping with new systems at this time. Tyco has re-qualified their cables and new part numbers have been assigned to both the Tyco and Amphenol cables (see new part numbers below).
1) New Cable part numbers
2) Kit Number Part Number Description
3) K3392 J3430 1-Meter, U320 SCSI Cable Kit
4) K3393 J3431 4-Meter, U320 SCSI Cable Kit
5) K3394 J3432 8-Meter, U320 SCSI Cable Kit
6) K3395 J3433 12-Meter, U320 SCSI Cable Kit
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By Anonymous Coward (62.255.32.13) on
the most helpful part of this post was Figure 1.
thanks!
By Bert (216.175.250.42) thrashbluegrass at antisocial dot com on
I tell you, minions are unreliable; I had a similar problem with mine bringing back abnormal brains a while back.
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By Ben (208.27.203.127) mouring@spam.eviladmin.org on
- Ben
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By Bert (216.175.250.42) thrashbluegrass at antisocial dot com on
Dealing with 'em ain't so hard, I just use a modified OpenBSD-powered baby-mulching machine.
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By johannes (131.130.1.135) on
Thanks for keeping undeadly up and running though. And thanks for the status update!
btw, funny Scheisse is used in English too ;)
Regards,
johannes
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By Anonymous Coward (66.207.129.194) on
~Nate
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By johannes (80.108.115.184) on
Thanks for the correction though.
Regards,
j.
By Anonymous Coward (68.148.237.181) on
schiessen is to blunder?
http://www.dict.cc/?s=schiessen
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By Olli (84.131.39.242) on
scheisse is used to explain the same thing if a native english speaker says "shit". (scheisse comes out of your bumb ;) )
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By pgilman (62.255.32.13) on
the english word for "scheisse" is spelled B-U-S-H.
By Bob Beck (129.128.228.129) beck@openbsd.org on http://www.hitler.org/
Maybe it's just an instinctive reaction to being around Germans.
"Nicht Schiesse - Ich bin ein Kanadiener..." ;)