SKYMAIL Ether Card Failure
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SKYMAIL server's ether services halted unexpectedly. The card may be going bad. Restarted the network service fixed the problem, but it may recur.

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SKYVAULT2 HDD Upgrade
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The daily backup partition (hdb1) on SKYVAULT2 had run out of space and needed to replaced. I swapped out a Samsung 160 GB drive and installed a Seagate Barracuda 250 GB drive.

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PLAN9 Workstation Power Supply Replaced
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Derek's W2K Por workstation (Presario) had a bad fan in the power supply. The power supply was changed to avert its potential failure and potential heat damage. The replacement power supply is a Power 500V.

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SEARCHA Intake Fan Replaced
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HOSTSA had a failing intake fan which has been replaced.

Not from inside the box: 2004/08/23 - Cleaned and moved to slot 2 the original 512 KB and added new PC133 512KB, now 1 GB total. The board D815EEA2 is no longer supoprted by Intel.

Additional note: On board vidoe chip may be on its way into failure. Seemed problematic while on the bench.

Addendum 2: The VGA problem disappears when replaced into the rack, suggesting a possible issue with the bench KVM. The VGA problem is inconsistent accross computer platforms, which is why it appears to local to each computer. However, it now seems that the issue actually may a voltage tolerance (wrong word?) matter between the KVM interface and various computers. It seems that this problem has been pronounced in the older 2U installations, perhap the desktop boards (and maybe the early server boards) only.

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SKYVAULT2 Fixes
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Inauspiciously the new SKYVAULT2 unit had a drive go bad on it. Additionally the ether card was malfunctioning. Both the HDD (now a Samsug 160 G) and ether card have been replaced.

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Former DEVB recast as SKYVAULT2
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The former DEVB machine, a tower, has been respun to be a new Linux archiver, replacing former SKYVAULT3 machine, which is a 2U with a bad onboard video chip. This new SKYVAULT2 unit will archive mail servers and services machines. It compliments the web server Linux archiver, SKYVAULT1. (The Radeon 7000 video card by ATI caused a boot failure on the former 2U, SKYVAULT3 using FC5.)

SKYVAULT2 tower contains the following: Memory: 512 M; CPU 900 MHz Celeron; OS: Fedora Core 5 (kernel 2.6.15); HDDs: hda Samsung SP0822N (80 G), hdb Samsung SP1604N (160 G), hdc DVD RW, hdd Maxtor 4R1200L0 (120 G).

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SKYMAIL3 Upgraded
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The SKYMAIL3 fallback mail server, and old VA Linux 4200 machine, was ugraded from RedHat 7 to Fedora Core 5. An extra 256 Mb of RAM was added to bump it up to 512 Mb. (The only way to get FC 5 to install was with following arguments to the installer: "linux ide=nodma nosub nofb".

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