January 29, 201412 yr We are happy to say that we are back online again, and that we are back to full functionality. For the last week we had been battling what we thought were issues that finally culminated in a disk controller failure. If you have dealt with one of these, you know that you can get some pretty confusing indications as the controller goes through a "soft" failure. Hard failures are pretty obvious if you are sitting at a screen hundreds of miles away. You just don't have a operating system to view or manage. Soft failures are another beast entirely. As it turned out, the controller finally did a hard failure at about 2200 EDT Sunday night. We were able to get the HP service personal in this morning and at about 0840 or so, AVSIM came back to life. No functionality or data has been lost. So, welcome back to AVSIM and now back to regularly scheduled programming! This post has been promoted to an article
January 29, 201412 yr Yay! Welcome back. That first hit after the cold turkey nearly finished me off.
January 29, 201412 yr That was the most boring period of my life! :lol: (But probably not of yours. :ph34r: ) What happened to AVSIM
January 29, 201412 yr Author (But probably not of yours. :ph34r: ) There is not a cat in the house that hasn't been kicked at least twice! :lol:
January 29, 201412 yr Welcome back! I'm sure a lot of us began fearing the worst as the hours passed. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
January 29, 201412 yr Tom, It's good that the it's back , but you have to do something about the 503 error, just got one again. Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
January 29, 201412 yr Author Tom, It's good that the it's back , but you have to do something about the 503 error, just got one again. Yeah, I caused that; not the system.
January 29, 201412 yr We are happy to say that we are back online again, and that we are back to full functionality. For the last week we had been battling what we thought were issues that finally culminated in a disk controller failure. If you have dealt with one of these, you know that you can get some pretty confusing indications as the controller goes through a "soft" failure. Hard failures are pretty obvious if you are sitting at a screen hundreds of miles away. You just don't have a operating system to view or manage. Soft failures are another beast entirely. As it turned out, the controller finally did a hard failure at about 2200 EDT Sunday night. We were able to get the HP service personal in this morning and at about 0840 or so, AVSIM came back to life. No functionality or data has been lost. So, welcome back to AVSIM and now back to regularly scheduled programming! This post has been promoted to an article I feel for you Tom, I was sweating bullets just this past weekend when I rebooted my home system and got the dreaded "no O/S found" message. I thought I lost the boot sector on my HD but it had never acted up before. In my case, the BIOS lost the HD settings--probably a sign that my battery is getting weak. I finally got the BIOS to recognize my HD again, but just the thought of downtime was a fright. Having downtime when you voluntarily serve a huge bunch of simmers--can't imagine how frustrating that was. Just remember we're an appreciative, if a bit eccentric bunch of simming souls and we appreciate your efforts to get our hang out back up! JC
January 29, 201412 yr Yeah, I caused that; not the system. Ok cool Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
January 29, 201412 yr Thank you for keeping us up to date Tom. Now I know why my cats ran and hid! Mel
January 29, 201412 yr That was the most boring period of my life! :lol: (But probably not of yours. :ph34r: ) Me too lol. Had the day off yesterday relaxing and flying but with no AVSim Glad we're back online Tom
January 29, 201412 yr Glad you are back Tom. I know you were probably insanely busy during the outage, however, it would have been helpful to post updates on the Avsim or your own Twitter feed. I checked both and didn't see anything about the outage posted. Mark CYYZ
January 29, 201412 yr Good to see you back Tom ... disk controller failures are definitely NOT fun. We use older HP ProLiants at work (DL380's) ... for the most part they have been very reliable (with a couple of drive failures, but hot swap and easy fix).
January 29, 201412 yr In the words of a song by *fill in name here* (can't remember :( ) "You don't know what you've got till it's gone" Welcome back. :biggrin: *Carly Simon?* :unsure: The World is divided into two groups. Those who say "Give me a link" and those that provide the link. WWG1WGA
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