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2005/05/25 - Jackal Outage
The disks on Jackal is having problems again and the server went down last night. The disk repair was started this morning and is estimated to take about two hours, so hopefully Jackal should be up at about 9:00.
The first attempt at repairing the disk on Jackal was unsuccessful. The second attempt is estimated to complete at about 10:30.
Jackal is now back up. It is possible that the problem is caused by the disk (RAID) controller, which we are monitoring. It may be necessary to replace it if the problem persists.

Please remember to save your work regularly, and keep separate backups if you can.
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