[rescue] ECC [was: Re: WOT: Ebay changes to IBM from Sun E10Kservers?]

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:27:15PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 10:12 PM, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> 
> > "From: Kurt Huhn <kurt at k-huhn.com>
> > "
> > "When you stick a big-ass server with 4 power supplies on them though,
> > "they tend to shit the bed - especially when all those drives start to
> > "spin up.
> >
> > that's why i always jumper my drives to spin up on first access.  yes,
> > it slows cold boots - but that's the point; it spreads the power surge
> > out and reduces strain on all the power supplies up the chain.
> >
> 
> Can't be done on this system.  The drives need be spinning when the OS 
> comes up - it's an Oracle database server.

True, but the spin up in sequence (if available) would work.  Might
take a few seconds longer to boot.

--P