Server hardware issue

[Austinpowers]

Hi all,
   Today I tried several times to put a new controller card in to take some off the heat off the Jedi Drives. I was experiencing drive latency, which caused the players lag.
None of what I did today worked and brought the server up. Things were going fine until the server drives started overheating. I am working on this now, but I may be forced to keep the game down for a few hours to let everything cool down.


I will probably end up having to replace some hardware this weekend. I am sorry all

[Anton]

Any ETA on it coming back up AP?

[Thf]

This has given me ample time to set up the Wintin mud client. Damn nice program. Tempted to use it straight telnet style.

[Austinpowers]

Mar 19, 2015 21:21:18 GMT -5 Anton said:

Any ETA on it coming back up AP?

It looks like a full rebuild on the jedi drives. I have backups from 1AM EST yesterday. Since the game has been down most of the day, this should not set people back..

Best I can tell is the drive was dying, and we had a mirror to copy the data. Well of course, my luck has it it copied all the errors. The drive latency was due to the drive failing, and the mirror drive copying all the errors. I cannot get the one to work at all, the other i am still working on.


I ended up spending 250$ on new SSD drives for the Jedi Drives. Not happy about this but what am/was supposed to do

[Lechem]

Take your time. You will get it. I owned a game for a while and know what you are going through.

[Texas]

Ah. Got it. Just wrote an e-mail because I couldn't figure out why the mud was down I should have looked here first. Hope everything is working out perfectly...

[Thf]

#49! May as well vote
www.topmudsites.com/vote-jedimud.html

[Austinpowers]

HI All!
   I have been happily going at it for 1.5 hours now. The box is rebuilt, most of my VM hosts are back. I lost my windows one for some odd reason, and it was probably me doing it when I re-added the virtual storage drives.


I have the Jedi drive now in, i will have to do some other work at a later date. I have a real raid card coming so I can mirror the drives via hardware. This software crap is not working. I have both original drives and can recover the data at some point.


NOW THE BAD news: please keep the bad mouthing to a minimum.    I will lose any exp/gold/levels/after 1am EST yesterday. I do not have any other backup closer.


I am thinking of ways to do it more frequently, but that could take me time.


Sorry all for the delay.  I really did have to spend 300$ on 1 SDD drive for the VMware main drive, 2x 10K velocity raptors for the jedi drives, and an IBM/Intel Raid card. The card wont be here until next week.

AP

[Anton]

Do you need the card to get the game back up? Or do you expect it to be back up today?
Thank you for all the hard work and your own financial investment AP

Anton

[Deleted]

Game is up. At approximately 20:50 game came back up. Thanks AP.