Guess Where I Am!

Yup, it's 1:20 AM on a Friday night. Am I out partying? Am I out whoring myself on street corners? Am I suffering insomnia?

None of the above! I'm at work! :-(

This weekend, Ken Ritucci is in Baltimore, teaching a weekend A2 square dance intensive class. Just as we were setting him up on stage with our calling equipment --he flew into BWI earlier in the day-- my cell phone starts ringing. A server died earlier in the evening and the powers-that-be who pay my salary wanted me to go as quickly as possible to Virginia to fix the issue.

Fortunately, it was an internal management server, not something outside customers would see. This allowed me to punt the problem to later in the evening.

As soon as we wrapped up in downtown Baltimore and dropped Ken off at his hotel, kent4str let me snooze a little while he drove us home. I then hopped into my car to head here to fix the issue.

It appears one IBM 3850 Linux server is reporting bad DIMMs 1 & 2 in memory card 1. I moved the DIMMs and swapped cards: the errors travelled with the DIMMs. Fortunately, I had just upgraded the memory in that beast a month ago so I still had the low density DIMMs it used to employ. Replacing the evil DIMMs with the older ones have allowed me to boot up the machine with slightly reduced memory capacity but at last it boots.

Testing should be done soon and I'm heading home.

Guess Where I Am!

Yup, it's 1:20 AM on a Friday night. Am I out partying? Am I out whoring myself on street corners? Am I suffering insomnia?

None of the above! I'm at work! :-(

This weekend, Ken Ritucci is in Baltimore, teaching a weekend A2 square dance intensive class. Just as we were setting him up on stage with our calling equipment --he flew into BWI earlier in the day-- my cell phone starts ringing. A server died earlier in the evening and the powers-that-be who pay my salary wanted me to go as quickly as possible to Virginia to fix the issue.

Fortunately, it was an internal management server, not something outside customers would see. This allowed me to punt the problem to later in the evening.

As soon as we wrapped up in downtown Baltimore and dropped Ken off at his hotel, kent4str let me snooze a little while he drove us home. I then hopped into my car to head here to fix the issue.

It appears one IBM 3850 Linux server is reporting bad DIMMs 1 & 2 in memory card 1. I moved the DIMMs and swapped cards: the errors travelled with the DIMMs. Fortunately, I had just upgraded the memory in that beast a month ago so I still had the low density DIMMs it used to employ. Replacing the evil DIMMs with the older ones have allowed me to boot up the machine with slightly reduced memory capacity but at last it boots.

Testing should be done soon and I'm heading home.