Subaru Enthusiasts Car Club of the Sierras - View Single Post - Why can't stuff break at a normal friggin hour?

sonicsuby · 2006-01-29, 05:15 AM

God dammit.

Tonight has been a nightmare. Well, not really a nightmare. For that I'd have to be sleeping

Had a disk to replace tonight in an SSA attached to an old ass R/S 6k. I'm new to this stuff so you're probably as confused with the acronyms as I am. I get by, you will too. So anyway, we go out to the computer room, open the box with our shiny new disk and....it's the wrong part. IBM shipped the wrong damn part. So the CE orders up the new disk. It's local (as in here in Sac), so no biggie (I've had parts fail at 3am before and have to come in from Hayward. By car. IBM apparently has no helicopters, rocket ships or dudes with jet packs to ferry parts.). It's 11:30pm when we order the disk. The people on the ordering side are apparently playing pong or something and decide not to order the disk for like 2 hours. We get the disk at 3am

. We replace the disk, go to start the cluster and start seeing some odd errors. What's that? The power supply failed! Well, luckily there's two power supplies so the box is up, but if one is down and the other fails, bad news! So the CE just left to go grab the PS to come back and replace it. He's been here since 7pm, me since 8pm. He probably won't be back till near 6 and then who knows how long it will take to swap it

The only benefit to being up this late is that I'll probably get home about the same time as the woman and we'll make breakfast and have a few drinks together. It's ok to drink at 6am if you haven't gone to sleep yet.

So to make this more of a discussion than a rant...

Don't you guys hate it when stuff fails at the most inopportune times? Tell me all about it and I'll read it tonight when I wake up!

2006-01-29, 05:15 AM	#1
sonicsuby Wagon Ho #2 Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 657	Why can't stuff break at a normal friggin hour? God dammit. Tonight has been a nightmare. Well, not really a nightmare. For that I'd have to be sleeping Had a disk to replace tonight in an SSA attached to an old ass R/S 6k. I'm new to this stuff so you're probably as confused with the acronyms as I am. I get by, you will too. So anyway, we go out to the computer room, open the box with our shiny new disk and....it's the wrong part. IBM shipped the wrong damn part. So the CE orders up the new disk. It's local (as in here in Sac), so no biggie (I've had parts fail at 3am before and have to come in from Hayward. By car. IBM apparently has no helicopters, rocket ships or dudes with jet packs to ferry parts.). It's 11:30pm when we order the disk. The people on the ordering side are apparently playing pong or something and decide not to order the disk for like 2 hours. We get the disk at 3am . We replace the disk, go to start the cluster and start seeing some odd errors. What's that? The power supply failed! Well, luckily there's two power supplies so the box is up, but if one is down and the other fails, bad news! So the CE just left to go grab the PS to come back and replace it. He's been here since 7pm, me since 8pm. He probably won't be back till near 6 and then who knows how long it will take to swap it The only benefit to being up this late is that I'll probably get home about the same time as the woman and we'll make breakfast and have a few drinks together. It's ok to drink at 6am if you haven't gone to sleep yet. So to make this more of a discussion than a rant... Don't you guys hate it when stuff fails at the most inopportune times? Tell me all about it and I'll read it tonight when I wake up! Last edited by sonicsuby; 2006-01-29 at 05:18 AM.