Re: When it rains...

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hahah! How much to overnight them??? :)

On 11/5/2020 8:29 PM, Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
> I have a couple in Brisbane Australia :-)
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> Sorry could not help my self.
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> Don
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> From:   smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx
> To:     "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
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> Date:   06/11/2020 12:23 PM
> Subject:        RE: When it rains...
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> Where are you located?  Maybe someone nearby will read this and they can
> dig one out of the storage closet and loan it to you.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Joe
> Pluta
> Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2020 8:13 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: When it rains...
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> Okay, so after the inadvertent reboot the system came up cleanly and I
> have TCP/IP access (but of course no console).  So here's the $64,000
> question: can I do the disk swap now and reboot, and run STRSST over the
> LAN?  Should I? Because frankly it's looking like it will be difficult to
> get a new console anytime soon.  I may be able to borrow one, but even
> that is difficult these days.
>
> O Gurus of the List, what say you?
>
> On 11/5/2020 6:14 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:
> > So I get a message in QSYSOPR that a disk failed.  Okay, no problem, I
> > have a spare.  I should probably get a few more, but that's a
> > different story.  So I go to flip on the operations console (an old
> > school twinax Infowindow) and... it beeps and then goes silent.  Okay,
> > so now that's gone.  Time to go to the backup. an old LynkLyte (with
> > the name SILVON0 taped to it).  It also fails to turn on.  I do a
> > snaity check of the power cord on an LCD monitor, it works fine.  Now
> > I'm getting worried.  I know I have the third string monitor in a
> > closet somewhere.... and now I know why it's in the closet.  It powers
> > up, but the screen just shows a weird rolling line; clearly the
> > display card is fried.
> >
> > So now I'm dead in the water.  No monitor, can't get in and do an SST
> > to replace the drive.  And to add insult to injury, I bumped the power
> > cord and killed the power momentarily, so in the middle of all this
> > the system is booting off an unprotected set of disks.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm just putting this out to the group to see if anyone has
> > old twinax monitors that need a home.  I found a couple on Ebay, but
> > they're not going to get here very quick.  Sadly, I was unable to find
> > one on Amazon Prime.  :)