Subj : Re: Novell 4.11 reboot
To   : Craig Healy
From : Darren Gibbs
Date : Thu Jun 08 2000 12:22 pm

 ->> Some people don't realise what "building a RAID5 array" entails, is
 ->> a didn't want you to come back yelling "But you said my data would
 ->> be OK". :-)

 CH> I can see where a first-timer might get that impression if he didn't
 CH> read the docs.  The Adaptec is easy enough to configure.

Most RAID cards are - if you RTFM!

 CH> I do keep having visions of a 225gb RAID5 array.  The Adaptec UDMA
 CH> RAID card and four IBM 75gb UDMA drives.  About $3,000US for all.
 CH> <sigh>

Think yourself lucky. I don't even know if we can GET those over here yet. I'd 
have to do something that big with UW SCSI - 7 x 34 gig drives, plus a UW RAID 
card - all told, about $40,000 $AUS.

 CH> BTW, the APC UPS was the apparent culprit on my 5:30am server
 CH> reboots.  I moved the UPS to another machine and now it has the
 CH> problem.  Still at a loss to figure *how* a UPS would do that at
 CH> the same time every day, and have nothing else in the building
 CH> affected.  Dear old Murphy..

It's possible that someone in the past had put a programmed shutdown every day 
into it using PowerChute - that's about all I can think of.

DaZZa

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