i am an incredible genius of incalculable magnitude

[rone]

One of our redirect cluster boxes died tonight after i hot-swapped one of the dead root drives.  After much struggling with getting the damned thing back online, i look back at the error message and realize that i HOT-SWAPPED THE WRONG DRIVE.  It's possible that this is what made the box die.  I'm sure that, had i been listening closely, i could have heard it singing "Daisy".

On the plus side, maybe i'll ask my boss to work from home tomorrow because of all the time i spent putting out fires tonight.  Yes, i think i will...

Comments

[pennyhill.livejournal.com]

i am an incredible genius of incalculable magnitude

... And astonishingly modest.

[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

I have more stories like this than I care to remember; it's probably why I'm a trainer now instead of a field-service tech.

[ptomblin-lj.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute - you get "work from home" time as a reward for killing a box? What happens if you kill several, you get a paid vacation?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's like the train engineer that gets put on leave after his train plows into some idiot suicide...

[jbroughton.livejournal.com]

I gotta comment along with tomblin...LOL So because of your accident and spending hours fixing a box that YOU killed, you are rewarded by getting to work from home? HEHEHE although I do remember getting to work from home the next day when we had to deal with the damn Bracknel servers going down at 2am in the morning and having to fuck with them until 8am the next morning....but then again I didn't intentionally kill the bracknel server tehehehehe

How's Patrick doing? Is Burnadette still working for the unix team?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Haven't talked to Patrick lately. Bernadette is still with us.

[matrushkaka.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahahahahaha....

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer true,
I'm half-crazy all for the love of you.
It won't be a fancy marriage,
I can't afford a horse and carriage....

Sleep now, young SysAdmin, and dream of Electric Sheep.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

I used to have a Commodore 64 program that would make the heads of a 1541 disk drive (never the quietest peripheral in the first place) vibrate to the tune of "Daisy".

It was very neat, but, um, a little hard on one's head alignment.

[ltempt.livejournal.com]

I remember not that long ago swapping a spindle in a daktari and wondering WTF was going on - was still fault. Some 20 minutes later I realised that the two bloody machines in that rack had their labels swapped. Bastards.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, that very thing happened to me about a month ago. This is after we'd swapped the "bad" drive twice and kept getting soft errors in SVM. We were ready to swap out the backplane when i realized the machine was not powered off... but its neighbor was. Grrrr. What was extra strange was that swapping out the mirror drive in the good box didn't trigger any errors, either. Or maybe it did and i just ignored it... but i'm pretty sure it didn't.