friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) (01/27/89)
[how do I get fault-tolererance?] In article <1538@lznv.ATT.COM>, ziegler@lznv.ATT.COM (J.ZIEGLER) writes: > And please don't forget power protection, which can eliminate a > primary cause of system failures to begin with. This really cannot be overstated. I think there is a common misconception that backup power supplies are there to give you an extra {few} minutes of power to do an orderly shutdown, but our experience has not shown this. Instead, it is there to filter out the 1 second power dropout that seems to be much more common. In addition, clean, sine-wave power will do *wonders* to make those annoying port hangs and such go away. We have had several customers for whom serious line conditioners have made a day-and-night difference. Many probably cannot imagine how much damage bad power can silently do to your machine. Steve -- Stephen J. Friedl 3B2-kind-of-guy friedl@vsi.com V-Systems, Inc. I speak for you only attmail!vsi!friedl Santa Ana, CA USA +1 714 545 6442 {backbones}!vsi!friedl Nancy Reagan on these *stupid* .signatures: "Enough already, OK?"