Today, I went to Amsterdam to fix an “old” server. After driving around in circles for a while, I finally found the datacenter (yay for roadblocks!) and the guy I had an appointment with. Unfortunately, the security-department wasn’t notified of me being there. “The person you requested access from is not well and at home”. We explained that that was -their- problem, not ours, and finally they left me in ;)

The “box”, or actually “rack”, had been running for a while, and needed a fresh install. So we abused some Solaris 9 cd’s, after unplugging all but 2 disks from the system. The install itself went quite ok, although t-e-r-r-i-b-l-y slow. The install requires a few reboots, which hurt if the box takes approx 15 to 20 minutes to boot. Anyway, all said and done, we watched the final reboot: all went well.

Then came the Big Test: plugging all disks back into the shelves. All 64 of ‘em. ;) Unfortunately the box fried itself, and kept panicing with various amounts of disks connected.. Time for some googling? :)