Therm-O-Link wrote:
> Wow, Jeff!  Sounds like one of those days!
> But hang in there!  How could it possibly get worse?  NOTE: This is a
> rhetorical question, hopefully your PC and HP systems won't *hear* it
> and show us exactly *how* it could get worse!

The PC was a work-surplus MicroExpress 386/33 that suffered a dead power
supply (not that it was that great to start with).  I now have the next
generation work-surplus 486/66 with 12Mb, running like a charm in
comparison.

The 3000 had defective sectors arise in the xm_user_log area and was
trashed to the point of not booting; for the curious it was a C3010M1
(the older 2Gb, full-height single-ended SCSI, a.k.a. a C3024/C3028)
that had been error-free since installation in 1992(?).  My CE paged me
this morning at 8:30AM and he met me onsight at 9:30 with replacement
drive in hand.  Install was successful and reload is ~75% complete, no
significant data loss except some e-mail for local users from Friday
night to Sunday morning (only a handful of users since it is primarily a
gateway to the admin system).  First significant data loss in nearly a
decade, and longest downtime I can remember; but granted this is a very
non-critical time for us and we didn't escalate our "next-day response"
hardware coverage.

So... amidst the gloom and doom, the major pain was the campus PBX
upgrade and my PC crashing :-)  The 3000 wasn't that sick after all, and
it was nice to be able to call the HPRC on Sunday and have a CE onsite
on Christmas Eve.

Now if the OS update goes as planned...

Merry Christmas/etc and Happy New Year to all!

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>