Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 22:24:50 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Water Damage Message-ID: <90CEBAA4-1C88-11D7-B574-000393681B06@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <3E11070B.5000306@jcdurham.com>
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Thanks for all the suggestions. Here is the latest update. The water from the sprinklers was purer than that from the tap. There was no residue from it anywhere. A bit of head (oven and hair drier used) and it was easily evaporated. However, all of the units except for one router were powered on and in use. The 2 hubs were directly below the fire and burning strands of something fell down and were sucked into them by their fans. The strands were hot enough that the melted into the chip bodies. I didn't hold much hope for them and was not surprised. Neither showed any form of life. Not even the fans came on. Also keep in mind that the ethernet cables came down from the ceiling and had no excess so water running down them had a straight forward path directly into the RJ-45 jacks. The operating router's sealed power brick is totally dead. Since its watertight, something obviously failed in the router and shorted out the brick. Trying another brick in that router caused every light on it to come on. It didn't do anything but light the lights. The non-operating router works fine. The one server that I have responsibility for (mailserver running FreeBSD 4.6) took awhile to get rewired properly. When it was yanked out, some of the internal cables were disconnected. Had to find the motherboard book to figure out how to set them back up properly. Once that was done, the machine came up and worked fine. However, its inlet fan was severly disfigured by the falling burning stuff. Since its at the bottom of the unit, the junk only marred the bottom of the frame. There were no electronics there for it to damage. The fan sounds funny now and I wouldn't trust it. However, the keyboard connector is now defective. You can't plug a keyboard into it. I couldn't find anything visibly wrong with it, it just doesn't work. I have no idea how that happened since there was a keyboard plugged in during the flooding. My only guess is that whoever unplugged it did so via the grab case and run method - leaving the keyboard to catch and disconnect itself. None of the MS servers survived. None had backups either. I suspect that will be a significant problem. However, I do have backups for the mail server and did recover the complete disk and dumped it to my laptop so that will be a simple restore. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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