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Not the 10000, but I admin'd a 4500 back in 1999 at Bristol-Myers Squibb at the ripe old age of 21. It was running Sun's mail server, which required constant ca
by dmd 1y ago
Not the 10000, but I admin'd a 4500 back in 1999 at Bristol-Myers Squibb at the ripe old age of 21. It was running Sun's mail server, which required constant care and feeding to even remotely reliably serve our 30,000+ users.
One time it just stopped responding, and my boss said "now, pay attention" and body-checked the machine as hard as he could.
It immediately started pinging again, and he refused to say anything else about it.
- bionsystem 1y agoI can't wait for the mandatory "brendan gregg screams at disks" youtube link.
- theideaofcoffee 1y agoAh, percussive maintenance! Also good for reseating disks that just don’t quite reliably get enumerated, slam the thing back in. I had to do something similar on a power supply for a V440, thankfully it was a month or so away from retirement, I didn’t feel too bad giving it some encouragement like that. Great machines.
- defaultcompany 1y agoThis reminds me of the “drop fix” for the sparc station where people would pick up the box and drop it to reseat the PROMs.
- linsomniac 1y agoAmiga had a similar issue. One of the chips (fat Agnes IIRC?) didn't quite fit in the socket correctly, and a common fix was to pull out the drive mechanisms and drop the chassis something like a foot onto a carpeted floor. Somewhat related, one morning I was in the office early and an accounting person came in and asked me for help, her computer wouldn't turn on and I was the only other one in the office. I went over, poked the power button and nothing happened. This was on a PC clone. She has a picture of her daughter on top of the computer, so I picked it up, gave the computer a good solid whack on the side, sat the picture down and poked the power button and it came to life. We call this: Percussive Engineering
- badc0ffee 1y agoApparently you also had to do this with the Apple ///.