MAHONE, a server in the Sheng-Greatback group "PC Cluster" suffered a hardware fault today relating to hard drive access. (SATA Backplane failure most likely). This was determined following installation of a replacement hard drive, which failed to resolve outstanding issues with mahone and have left it a non-bootable state.

No data has been lost (due to redundant / mirrored drive configuration) however the system will be offline until (approximately) Tuesday Aug-7th, at which time the spare parts are expected from Sun and should be installed by TDC (hopefully resolving the problem).


UPDATE: Tuesday Aug.7th -- New parts from Sun were installed today, and the system is back online and working normally again. Please contact TDC if there appear to be any outstanding issues.