Hmm. Shouldn’t the computer be exploding around now?
Pell has a couple of ancient scsi disks in it, one of which has a moderately large swath of uncorrectable bad disk blocks (which, annoyingly, only show up when p*n* does one of its erratic scribbles to disk. This doesn’t get me, but the best remains wedded to UWash’s odd little kitchen sink tool and thus occasionally has a pine session to directly to hell when it trips over one of those blocks.) So I’ve been waiting for the colo to lose power (or for someone to absent-mindedly kick the powercord out) so I can go in and put in a somewhat larger disk.
But I’m certainly not going to knock off a starting-to-get-reasonable uptime on the last remaining Linux 2.0.x machine on the net, so I guess I’ll just keep waiting for the sky to fall in. Perhaps it’s time to start working on backporting SATA and USB support into Linux 2.0.x so I won’t have to keep hunting around for SCSI disks when /dev/root finally dies the True Death.