Is M-net down?  I have not been able to log in for about a week.

33 responses total.

The rumor is that there's a HDD failure.

thanks for the info

The rumor is that grex sucks even more with the upgrade and crappy
interfaces.

What interfaces would you like?

What is being done about M-Net's hard drive failure, and who is doing it?

(I started up a fresh off-season baseball item in the Grex sports
conference for the interregnum, and fans of the lesser sports :-) 
might want to start similar items to tide us over.   I do intend
to move back to the M-net sports conference when that becomes 
possible.)

I thought m-net was running as a VM in tonster's farm.

Sorry guys, didn't realize this item was here.  We're unsure of m-net's
current status right now.  We were attempting to do some upgrades of the
OS when we rebooted m-net.  The first time it rebooted, it took a very
long time to come back, but eventually it did.  We saw some HDD errors
at that point on one of the drives in the mirror.  It was rebooted again
some time later, and it's been down since. I'm working on getting it
from the colo it's housed in in Southfield, but I got busy last week and
was unable to make it.  I'm waiting to hear back on when someone can
meet me at the DC to pick it up, hopefully this weekend.  Once I've got
it, I'll spin it up and see if anything is left.

I should know more in a couple days.

I appreciate the update, Tony.  I hadn't heard anything until yesterday, 
when I remembered this conference, and had wondered if we'd seen the last 
of M-Net.

re resp:6: You've spoken of The Void recently, and now of the lesser 
sports.  How heartwarming!

Are there any new updates?

I'm really missing the sports conference...

Been having trouble getting in contact with the colo provider.  I've got
an appointment to pick up m-net tonight.  Hopefully I'll have some info
this evening.

Thanks, Tony!

I picked up M-Net tonight.  I'm working on it now.  It's
behaving...oddly, but all in all I think everything is intact. 
Hopefully I'll have it booted to something that can actually read the
drives soon so I can at least make a copy of the data.

Behaving oddly?  What was it doing, Tony?

I think the drives might be failing or possibly the bus has just always
been this slow.  Even the BIOS seems slow. Anyway, I've managed to fix
what was broken and it's almost ready to come up.  I'll probably bring
it back online from my house tomorrow sometime.  Need to change it's IP
for now.

Tony, thanks!

M-Net's up!

Yay!  Thanks, Tony!

Yes, thanks!

M-Net is down again this evening.

apparently it rebooted and I accidentally left a cd in the drive..

Ah, okay.  Thanks for the explanation!

was the reboot due to hardware or is the new build unstable?

Well, the reboot was either cross doing upgrades, or my 2 year old
daughter pulling out the plug... :/ 

Recompiling an entire system can really give an older computer
a workout, too, especially if you throw in an extended session
of application upgrades.  Might cause something to fail, like
a hard drive.

resp:24 I don't think it was me that time....  I was kind of surprised to
try and login and see it down.

resp:26: It probably wasn't then.  Sorry, I've been dealing with a wife
in the hospital all week, so I haven't had a lot of time to protect
m-net from the 2 year old.  She turned off the UPS it was attached to
this morning, bringing it down again. :(  I'll get it moved to the
basement this weekend where she can't reach it. :)

Gosh, Tony.  Heck with M-Net.  I hope your wife is doing all right.

Sorry, guess my daughter got to the UPS at some point today while I was
at the hospital. :(  I'm booting it up (again) now.   

As for Brooke, she's doing better.  She should be out tomorrow morning.
 As a word of caution: avoid kidney infections.  They suck.

Yikes!  I'm glad to hear she is feeling better!

good news tony.thanks for taking some time out when your wife is sick to
 get m-net back up.I hope your wife gets to feeling better real soon.

M-Net's down again.  Your daughter is a pretty smart kid, Tony!  She
seems to regard M-Net as a threat of some kind, and she's on the attack.

(-:

Damnit!  I'll take it downstairs when I get home...went to the hospital
early this morning and she wasn't up yet. :(  I'll be up this afternoon
sometime when I get home...

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