[geeks] Eeeek

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 02:13:57AM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On 2002.04.11 01:46 Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
> 
> > Bringing a mainframe up with a full set of
> > power-on tests takes about half an hour.
> That fast? Ragge (NetBSD VAX portmaster) told once that they have a full
> blown VAX 8800 with 1/2GB RAM up there in north sweden. The RAM test
> only takes 45 minutes. Usually they bring the machine once a year down
> to replace broken disks. (There are about 5 to 6 dozen connected to that
> machine.) 

They can't hot swap disks?

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Joshua D. Boyd