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Since I never manage to hold on to manuals, I had to try to figure out how to get a dell 5324 configured to have an IP the hard way.
First, the serial port is 9600 8/N/1 with no flow control (hardware or software).
The documenation for the switch is available online.
I thought I’d check out the [...]

I’m using 2 pvr 250 cards in my mythtv setup, and every once in a while I get a weird corruption thing in the video and audio where it stutters for a second, then the audio is all oddly jerky for the rest of the recording, it’s like 200ms or so is missing from every [...]

Generally when I want to get things fixed, I’d rather just give them all the things that are wrong on all the servers I have, and let them fix it all at once. That’s not how they’re set up though, and they get cranky about it.
So, I’m going to try playing it their [...]

It didn’t really let the magic blue smoke out, but it might as well have.
It started with a weird error in syslog:

1 Nov 1 21:57:19 <user.crit> XXX /kernel: twe0: AEN: <sbuf integrity check failure>

After contacting 3ware, they suggested that we get a full log from the web interface (3dmd). [...]

So, today we had a 3ware card spectacularly fail. More on that on another post tomorrow.
In the course of trying to recover from it, there was a long fsck that ended up having to put lots of stuff in lost+found. That’s fine, I really can’t expect that it would do more than that [...]