[geeks] Eeeek

[Dave McGuire]

On April 10, Eric Dittman 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.
> > > 
> > > NetBSD doesn't support hotswap disks?
> > 
> >   NetBSD does, sure.
> 
> I don't understand your previous comment, then, that not being
> able to hotswap is an issue of OS support.  Did you mean it was
> more of a hardware issue?

  Oh nono...I didn't know they were running NetBSD on that 8800...are
they?  I'd assumed not because NetBSD/vax only got SMP support within
the past year or so, and it was stated that the 8800 is rarely
rebooted.

     -Dave

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