[comp.sys.pyramid] Throughput Accelerator problems ?

linda@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Linda Birmingham) (07/27/89)

Since we had throughput accelerators added to our 9820 system we
have had several hardware crashes.

Any comments on the reliability of the TA's ?

We have one on revision 9 and one on revison 8. I'm told that the revision 8
TA's are 'replaced if a problem occurs'.

I guess they'll both be rev.9 soon !

Linda.
Brunel University.
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greg@moxie.UUCP (Greg Hackney) (07/29/89)

In article <770@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> linda@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Linda Birmingham) writes:
>Since we had throughput accelerators added to our 9820 system we
>have had several hardware crashes.
>Any comments on the reliability of the TA's ?

Our 9825 has been VERY reliable. There was one board failure immediately
after the TA addition, but since has run for months. It has 50-70 simultaneous
heads-down users, and processes 30+ news feeds via TCP/IP for the "texbell"
gateway. It's the only system I've ever administered that never needs rebooting.

We just bought 4 Pyramids, and are getting 2 more in September.