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

[Jeff Campbell]

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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 
>>>>
>>> ##
>>>  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"?

Yes


> 
> Sounds familiar...



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