@nthony

Hoarding. I am not bad. I am not like the people you see on obscure TV programmes who never throw things away... but I do sometimes look at things and think "I will need that again". To this end for technical things I have two rather sizeable containers for said things, one marked cables, one marked hardware.

This week found me wondering whether I had two items on two days - firstly a an 160/320 LVD/SE SCSI cable with terminators, and secondly 68 pin Ultra Wide SCSI card - PCI... not what I imagine most people are pondering between breakfast and commencing the morning commute, but this is me, and we are all 'not most people'.

Given that that I have not used the SCSI controllers in my desktop since about 2003, and not in servers since about 2004... the chances where to say the least slim.

Imagine my surprise when on both occasions - I had not one, but a selection of three. Three cables in a variety of lengths, and two cards, two Adaptec, and one questionable no-name brand.

On both occasions I checked the window - it was indeed "a rainy day" - maybe this is these are the days the phrase speaks of?

Anyway - fancy that.

So why the need? Well - I have decided that I should migrate my servers and services back to my own hardware. It's all a bit big, a bit memory hungry, and while my boss is a fabulous guy, its space better used for other things right?

Anyway - the journey continues.

Today saw a new SCSI back plane for the beast, as the activity/failure lights where not functioning as they should have been, the day before a new RAID card, next week more RAM. It is *quite* the little project - and the repeated lifting through to the bench of a 30kg full length rack case to tinker amuses my boss greatly.

Build platform. Build Services. Don.t Panic. Migrate. Soon.

(...and if you happen to know why a Smart Array 5i or 5300 see a SureStore DLT1 at POST time, but once booted the Linux CCISS driver - if it can see it - it is keeping it very much to itself... let me know please!)