Over the Labor Day weekend, the air conditioning unit went out in the main computer room. All PC servers had shutdown from overheating. At this point we weren't worried because we have a mirrored system disk which basically means we have a duplicate disk drive that is always identical to the system disk. We then called Novell technical support who basically told us that we would have to get a new disk drive and totally rebuild the server from the ground up. The other labs in stafford, education and library basement should be able to print by sometime Tuesday.
Printing is only available on four workstations.
A few programs, including Eudora, Micromedex, IDIS, Moodys Company Data, and ZoomText are not working. The workstations on the second floor will not be available until later this week at the earliest. According to Computing Services staff, the room temperature reached at least 120 degrees. The heat damaged the hard drives of the Class server. The library has not received an explanation for why these files were not backed up.