2002.06.23 ~00  Puter problems

My K7/1200 has been acting up lately.  It may or may not be related to the
onset of summer.

In the K7/1200 (anticleia) are... were... three HDDs and an internal IDE
ZIP100 drive.  Of the HDDs, they are labeled 4GB, 2GB, and 400MB.  The 400
MB bit the dust, and now I'm down 400MB in swap space to 160MB (80 per
remaining drive).

OpenGL use has started to destabilize anticleia.  This might be related to
using GATOS drivers, but the summer heat certainly isn't helping.

A long time ago, the PS/2 controller in anticleia fried.  Dunno how.  Plug
a keyboard (or even not) into the PS/2 port, and the keyboard buffer fills
with complete garbage.  At least Linux doesn't accept the rubbish --
initial handshaking with PS/2 keyb fails, so the port gets ignored.
Perhaps related to this, APM sleep mode fails.  Well, actually, waking up
fails.  Nothing can get anticleia out of APM sleep mode, even pressing the
power switch (which is supposed to trigger the ACPI sleep signal or
whatever).

The fileserver/router, a K6-2/350 (penelope), has suffered from a series of
reboots lately.  Most were related to using the CD-RW drive (jamming up or
whatever and taking down the kernel and CPU with it).  I'm thinking of
switching around the ZIP100 and the CD-RW drive next time penelope reboots.

All in all, this has wreaked general havoc on my development efforts.  I
normally have about 30 local shell sessions going (20 on penelope, 10 on
anticleia), all doing different things.  A reboot means I have to take time
to go around and re-establish sessions.  Sort of makes me wish for a
persistant-object/state OS.