The Sect of Rama

It could be an isolated instance and I really hope it was, but here is my story: Have never questioned the reliability of a Sun hardware and that goes from Ultra-1s. I had systems running for two years straight without a reboot. I was so happy that its' reliability got converted to trust and I ended up removing all the Windows machines from my home, but one. Bought one Ultra-10 from a refurbished store and ran my database server on it. Was slow but years gone by and no problems. Then one day I decided to purchase the Sunfire v100 through the employee purchase plan. It was the first rack server and I overnight became a celebrity among my friends. My trust kicked in and one day I retired all of the other Sun machines. Installed CVS and version controlled all my 10 years of work on v100. Ran SunONE web servers and was almost ready to go "live" when one day it decided not to boot. Hmm! What could be wrong? C'mon its a Sun machine. I must be doing something wrong. Long and repeated LOM debugging started. May be its a harddisk. May be its the kernel. Email threads with sunmanagers followed. Hours and Hours of painstaking debugging... I had lost the disk controller. I was so confident that I had not even taken any warranty. My work of 10 years was lost. Was that just one machine? No it was not. It was my love, the care taker of my hardwork. I looked at the only Windows machine running in the corner of my bedroom and that still played my mp3s.

Posted by Ashish on January 03, 2007 at 11:43 AM PST #