[geeks] Eeeek

[Dave McGuire]

On April 10, Joshua D Boyd 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?

  In this case, that's more an issue of OS support than anything else.

    -Dave

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