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Not So Bad Robotics Switch

Looks like the buttons are both fine - Once I got it apart and tested it with a multi meter it became apparent that the robotics enable button is just momentary - it's a different kind of switch from the power switch. Based on the LEDs on the LMD (Library Motor Driver) it looks like that might be the problem. I'm going to check the rest of the fuses first though.

Bad Robotics Switch

Looks like the robotics enable/disable switch on the i2000 is probably bad. Ordered a new switch panel but it'll be a while before it gets here. Gonna see what I can do in the meantime. At the very least I'd like to test and make sure that there aren't other issues I can be working on.

The attached image is the replacement one I got. It was around $34 on ebay.

i2000 Service Login - Interesting Findings

Root's SSH Key

The root user has an ssh key allowed by default: 'ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEA17NPD/1mXAN2kZ/E4YneYYLD7UEi+MiZ94ijJ2+b+oUxdZlGrpZH3zEsJZZGdLrAD+iDs1a0DS44CPEUmh1IF9i/joV4dmJctZEp7H15Z09p+r/1SIsfjwdJ7yNxLy2gc5wmrr09vjmNq0v8+yTWdawll2zjvygqvtYMYR2kD8QT9GT+6yTjWNCq+l1LFXM8wwwK3NI9DTxJh7KcLt1OgbrAlc4ZUhcS/4oOunMASVa0FCxtu5yVetoVdGC8b7YWQQTkzs3z3mpK1iqVNBxfs+LcPJDed35BVwb4Ajm2SWR6XJxK/Evj5jDqekEU23M2i2E4+2L9zQANzZoq6AbUvQ=='

/etc/exports

 

Logging In As root - Scalar i2000 (and maybe i6000)

  1. Connect to the service port
    1. It's that little black covered on that says not to use
  2. Set your ip to 10.10.1.100
    1. The last octet can be anything but .1
  3. Use 'telnet' to connect to 10.10.1.1
  4. Login with "root" and "dallas"

 

I found this by using john the ripper on /etc/shadow in 10.10.1.1:/tftpboot/cmboot/initrd-dmcb (NFS). The initrd is gzip'ed. Once unzipped you can mount it with a loop device.

 

/etc/passwd

 

Tape Library: Why Tape?

While discussing my new tape library a friend asked "why tape?" 

The answer is pretty simple: 

  • LTO-6 is $7.58/TiB
  • 8TB HDs are $24.83/TiB

At the end if the day I can get tape for 1/3 the price of hard drives. While the upfront cost of tape is higher ($4500 for tape vs $1500 for disk), it becomes worth it pretty quick to me. 

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