KT-4800 is offline effective 10am Thursday 26th for approximately 24 hours, in order to allow some critical disk maintenance work to be performed.

In particular, 2 "direct attached disk arrays" which provide the bulk of the "local high performance storage" to this server have been running with very old fimrware (never updated since ~2003). A recent hard drive failure in the raid disk array has prompted the need to update the controller firmware, so that the new replacement drive comes online correctly. Alas, part of this process involves the array performing a full verification of all data, which is a slow process, hence this rather extensive downtime.

Your cooperation and understanding in this matter is certainly appreciated.


UPDATE Thurs @ 6pm

KT-4800 is back online and work is complete for now. Things are back online and working normally. Further work may need to be scheduled - at a to-be-determined date.