Hardware Burn out!
I got most of the hardware I ordered and I started assembling everything. I re-assembled my SAN in a new case and added all the new hard drives yesterday. Then during the day this morning I started noticing a kind of burning smell. I couldn’t track down the source of the smell, so I walked around the office and found a couple of volunteers to come to my office and track down the source of the smell. Before I left my office to find them I was recompiling my kernel on the SAN to enable the drivers for my new SATA II PCI-X card. When I got back to my office with my volunteer bloodhounds, the SAN was off and the power supply was burning hot.
No worries! I already had a new power supply ordered because I wasn’t certain the old one would handle all the new hard drives. It arrives tomorrow. Let’s just hope it shut down before anything else burnt up.