🚀 go-pugleaf

In answer to all the private email queries I'm receiving.....

The xenitec.xenitec.on.ca Internet gateway machine underwent
some drastic surgery over the last two weeks.  We have been
back up (and apparently stable) since about 3am Mon Nov 15th.

The reported Fujitsu drive crashes were indeed caused not by
the failure of the drive itself (it's humming along quite nicely
as I type this), but by failure of the Adaptec 1742A in "enhanced
mode" using the EIAD driver, telling the Fujitsu to overwrite it's
fdisk and divvy tables.  Obviously, we've bugrep'd this failure.
We are now running using a BusTek SCSI host adapter, which while
not as blazingly fast with the standard "ad" driver, appears stable,
and inspite of what the docs say, does support drives >1 gig with
SCO UNIX, just so long as you have the correct current version.
I should also state that the failures were in no way caused by
the beta version of the new SCO ODT o/s; it's just fine.  :-)

In the interim, I took some rather great pains to ensure that
no email was lost.  The filesystems that house all email spools
were on the drive we did _not_ loose, in anticipation of just
such a necessity.  As a result, full email, mmdf spool, and uucp
spool recovery after each crash was possible.  Mail which had not
been delivered here (primarily via uunet.ca) was held and delivered
when we came back up.  In summary, I suspect that zero mail was lost.

As for news, we endeavoured to deliver news prior to the upgrade
shutdown.  We likely did loose a bit of news due to the crashes,
but expect that most of it would flow in anyway in the last and
next few days, as indeed it seems to be doing.

[with that info, please, no one ask me why the UUCP maps weren't
 published on time.  :-) ]

                --ed            (Ed Hew)
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        XeniTec Consulting Services             <edhew@xenitec.on.ca>