[Info-vax] Eisner? Down? (10 days later)

[Richard B. Gilbert]

JF Mezei wrote:
> I got curious about "Mylex" having never seen those contraptions. Google
> lead me to a few goodies:
> 
> From ITRC:
>> http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1231109959807+28353475&threadId=1214006
> ##
>  Andy Bustamante
> Mar 24, 2008 16:46:15 GMT  9 pts 	
> Odwillia,
> 
> The Mylex raid controllers were at one time an affordable entry level
> raid solution. They had some quirks.
> 
> It's possible that your storage shelves lost power. This would cause the
> controller to mark all disks as bad. One option, before resorting to
> tape restore, is to power down the Alpha server, power down the disk,
> restore power to the disk, wait for all disk to spin up, and restore
> power to the Alpha.
> 
> You can also boot the Alphabios and run the Mylex configuration utility.
> This will allow you to mark a device as good. This is a console
> operation, preferably from a graphic console.
> 
> If these options don't work, your controller may have failed. If you've
> saved the disk configuration to a floppy disk, a replacement controller
> can be configured easily.
> ##
> 

This sounds vaguely familiar.  Were the Mylex controllers, by any 
chance, once known as "SWXCR"?