[techtalk] Smoking kills!

[Chris Lewis]

<un-lurk>
	I've never had an experience like this as a result of smokers, but we do
have a car dealership client who's server sits very near the repair shop.
Anytime you have to crack the case on it, the inside looks like they used it
to drain the oil out of an old VW Rabbit.  This has caused serious problems
with their tape backup functioning properly.  The oil, grease, brake dust,
and other assorted crud in the air from the shop has gummed up the drive and
caused it to cease functioning.  I would imagine that the tar in cigarette
smoke would have similar effects.  It's bad enough to crash the system, but
if you're backup isn't working when it goes down, you're really out of luck.

</lurk>

-Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org
> [mailto:techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org]On Behalf Of Magni Onsoien
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 7:40 AM
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: [techtalk] Smoking kills!
>
>
> Today our server died. Since autumn 1999 it has been in a machine room
> in the corner of an open office (no ceiling above the machine room, just
> walls). In this office all the 6 employees are heavy smokers (thank God
> I'm not working there!), so there is constantly smoke in the machine
> room. The server of course had its chassis on, but it was still covered
> by a thin layer of dust and tar all over, also on the inside.
> About two months ago another server died. It looked like it might be the
> disk, as there were lots of I/O-errors. However, fsck showed no errors
> and things worked fine after a boot. After the next crash with the same
> I/O-errors we took the server away and put the standby-box there in
> stead. A closer physical examination of the server showed a layer of tar
> and dust, just as on our server, and later the IDE-controller on the
> mother board cracked with a big bang! We defined it dead.
>
> So, obviosly we suspect smoke to be the evil one here. Has anyone
> experienced problems with servers or workstations in enviroments with
> heavy smoking? It would be nice if we could tell our client that HIS
> clients' servers may die because of the smokefilled environment, and
> that they should do something about this, and support this with
> experiences and data from other people or sources (they kind of know we
> are anti-smokers and may be a bit biased ;))
>
>
> Magni :)
> --
> sash is very good for you.
>
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