the one camera angle last night that shows kariya popping back to life yesterday was pretty scary. hopefully they'll be able to play their game again tomorrow night, but i wouldn't be surprised to see a 3-0 devils victory.
today has turned out to be one of those computer disaster days.
last night i decided to try to get the sparc running aurora 1.0. the only problems were, i don't have a monitor for it, and didn't have a null-modem cable (to do a serial console install). but, it didn't really matter as the internet blew up and i couldn't download the isos.
i went to get a null-modem cable today. while trying to use it, i rebooted it and corrupted the filesystem, and since i didn't have the serial console working, i had to take the drive out and fsck it from a different box.
i had an adaptec 2920 scsi card from my jaz drive days, and put that in milano. linux didn't detect it, and it didn't show up in lspci. neither did windows, so i guess it's dead. joe had a spare scsi card, and that worked fine. i repaired the partition and put the drive back in the sparc.
around this time, the internet went down. there was the trouble last night, and joe said that this morning the box had crashed so he rebooted it. also, it needed to be rebooted the other day. now, it was panicking on boot every time. i touched the case, and it felt pretty warm, so i opened it.
it turns out the heatsink had fallen off the cpu, since one of the little latches on the cpu socket had broken off. i couldn't get it to stay on securely, so that box now sits sideways. hopefully the heat grease will keep it attached.
i got the null-modem thing working fine from milano, but it still doesn't work from the lustre ost (which lives in the closet. joe barely tolerated the the ost being in the living room, but has a zero tolerance stance on the sparc being anywhere he can hear it.)