[tech] Re: [ucc] Mermaid is down (again)
James Andrewartha
trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sun Nov 17 01:45:32 WST 2002
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, David Manchester wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:28:39PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > Hey guys
> >
> > Mermaid is down, again. If anyone opens Cameron Hall could
> > they ring 1175 and I'll pop over with some spare bits and
> > try to fix it.
>
> Mermaid's been quietly happy for a long time.
> Who's been trying to "fix" it lately?
Nobody. It just likes to die after running for half an hour or so,
whatever it's running, Linux or memtest x86. This may be due to heat
damage from Thursday. Mesh, Grahame and Zarquin played with it today, but
didn't have any success. Tonight I tried to swap mermaid's hdd, NIC,
serial card and CPU into one of the venturis's that was lying around
(which had 192meg of RAM), but couldn't get LILO to boot (it was stuck at
LI), even after some tqeaking of lilo (interspersed with a few hours
trying to make a working boot floppy).
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