[rescue] needed: u1 NVRAM chip

Patrick Finnegan pat at computer-refuge.org
Wed Sep 24 09:43:08 CDT 2008


On Wednesday 24 September 2008, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:47:19PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > > but I shouldn't be running into this problem in a production
> > > environment.
> >
> > Agreed.  I'm surprised work isn't just springing for a new chip
> > from Mouser or some such....
>
> If they're cheap enough to be running a U1 as a license server still,
> do you REALLY think they want to spend ANY money on it?  I'm the
> sysadmin, I'm supposed to wave my magic wand and fix it! 8-)

Don't do that in public or you may get arrested...

Our senior storage engineer has been called our "file fairy" (with the 
requisite "beware of magic wand").

Pat
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