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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 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 
>>>
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>>  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"?

Sounds familiar...