[Rack] minotaur is down
Ben Kochie
ben at nerp.net
Fri Jul 5 23:41:21 UTC 2013
Ok, I will try and get the base system up and running as it was.
The new system will have a minimized root filesystem on SSD. Home and
data storage will be provided by a new 750G drive. This is stuff I picked
up for another project that never got done.
One thing we could do is order one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158166
-ben
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, Jake wrote:
> well, the payphone is one physical serial port, and the upstairs keypad is
> another. These are important because they are actual RS232 lines running
> long distances (like in the 1970's) and they are pretty mission-critical
> (literally in the mission) and the extra USB-serial layer would suck for
> that. so i'm glad we don't need to do that.
>
> it used to be that there were serial ports out to each net appliance, for
> remote management. I think that can be done over USB serial adaptor just
> fine, and if we need more i know where they are hiding.
>
> you will notice a four-way plug that has yellow and black wires, and goes to
> the blue serial cables. Those are 12v power for the payphone and upstairs
> keypad. On minotaur there was a jack on the motherboard that happened to put
> out 12v like that, so that's what that is. If you find a way to power those
> from the new situation that would be great.
>
> i hope that the minotaur downtime doesn't get confused with the new door
> access policy.
>
> -jake
>
> On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, Ben Kochie wrote:
>
>> It has 3 physical serial ports, and USB. Is that enough?
>>
>> -ben
>>
>> On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, Jake wrote:
>>
>>> ahhh fuck. i don't suppose it has physical serial ports?
>>>
>>> On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, Ben Kochie wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, something is fucked up with the mainboard. We tried two new hard
>>>> drives, they would not boot.
>>>>
>>>> We have a new box that we're bootstrapping now.
>>>>
>>>> -ben
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, Jake wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> this computer runs the payphone keypad, upstairs keypad, and opens the
>>>>> door for people. it also does DNS at noisebridge. is it being
>>>>> repaired?
>>>>>
>>>>> jake at pony:~$ ping minotaur.noise
>>>>> PING minotaur.noise (172.30.0.4) 56(84) bytes of data.
>>>>>> From pony (172.30.0.30) icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>>>>>> From pony (172.30.0.30) icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>>>>>> From pony (172.30.0.30) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
>>>>> ^C
>>>>> --- minotaur.noise ping statistics ---
>>>>> 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time
>>>>> 4168ms pipe 3
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