Re: server survives 4 foot drop

[Reverend <statux bigfoot com>]

Left there running??? I would never leave a piece of equipment running
with people like that...

as far as testing your system.. cat the stuff in the /proc directory...
should tell ya if somethin's goin on.. also keep an eye on the logs

On Mon, 3 May 1999, Charles Galpin wrote:

> The shelf my poor server in question was sitting on (and running happily) 
> collapsed unexpectedly today. I happened to be standing next to it and (sort 
> of) caught it before it hit the ground, but it got a good jolt never the 
> less.
> 
> I stuck a monitor on it, and the console background was flashing red, and 
> was  printing out  various disk read/block errors. I was a bit distracted at 
> the time :) and just shut it down, not really paying attention to the errors 
> - they did not look good!.
> 
> Anyway I rebooted, and it ran fsck, and things seem ok. I looked in the 
> messages file and dmesg, but didn't see any relevant messages about this 
> event.
> 
> The reason for my post is this - what can I do to extensively test this disk 
> to make sure it's not going to go bad anytime soon. I live a 850 miles away, 
> and this will be left in the care of my mother and her non-technical staff.
> 
> tia
> charles
> 
> 
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