nagy%bsndbg.hepnet@LBL.ARPA.UUCP (02/21/87)
>Does anyone know of a way to have RA81's spin themselve up after a power >glitch like RM05's (also RA60's)? We have a two VAX cluster, with RA81's, >RA60's, and RM05's. We also have battery backup for the memory, and PDS's >to distribute the power. My only complaint is that if the power goes off for >a second or two (which is what happens in 90% of the cases(), the jobs are >still running, the RM05's come back up on their own, but someone has to go >down to the computer room and re-spin the RA drives. Something's wrong here. The VAXCluster I used to manage had 5-7 RA81s, two HSC50s and lots of power outages (we blow up BIG transformers here). The RA81s, RM80s and RA60s would usually spin up by themselves unless they experienced some type of failure (one RM80 liked to toss its drive belt on occassion). Once the HSC50s rebooted, the system would taken right off again on a (very) short power outage or the VAXes reboot on longer ones. Talk to your field service people, something is not right!
vtcf@NCSC.ARPA.UUCP (03/12/87)
I talked to Field Service, and he didn't believe me when I told him that your drives spun up! Is there anyone you know of that I could talk to about this? It seems that DEC needs to perform some sort of hardware modification to make this work. Thanks Tom Williams
MCDONALD@UMKCVAX1.BITNET (03/17/87)
Our field service is *very* sharp and has never heard of ra81's NOT spinning
up. Ours always do and he knows of nothing special about them.
It does take about 7 minutes for the hsc50 to boot and another few minutes
for vms to boot far enough where it needs to mount drives. During this time,
the lights are off ... but when needed they come on.
GaryM. BITNET contact UMKCVAXn (n=1,3)
Univ. of Mo. at K.C.
MCDONALD @ UMKCVAX1 . BITNET