[rescue] Accidentally destroying hardware..

Steven Hill sjh at matrix.net
Mon Mar 25 14:39:40 CST 2002


Mine was 2 PSUs in a RAIDweb(.com) 1Tb array.

They were not autosensing, like everything else in my racks in the
datacenter, and were set to 110V from being fiddled with in the
office.

I trot this disk array over to our datacenter, full of data, plug it
in to out E6500, power up...

*BANG*

Both PSUs died in a capacitor blowing flash.

400bux later for the pair of replacement PSUs

The best part is...

2 weeks later a colleague did *exactly* the same thing to another one.

:-)

S.

-- 
Steven Hill
Systems Administrator

www.matrixnetsystems.com



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