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

[Kurt Huhn]

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.


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