[Info-vax] unused SAS SFF disk spin status?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 8/20/2011 5:17 AM, CY wrote:
> So, yank it (or what is the proper term) I use that on my old BA356
> storage (a uVAX 3100 from the stoneage). the disks are a bit
> expensiven (RZ26) to be running but might good to have cold spare or
> two when the system goes belly up.They are clones of the system and
> the data disk. If it stops I can remote tell what to do to correct the
> problem. And when I take a backup to tape I also copy all data to the
> reserves.
>
> Other systems (DS25) we use have 3 identical disk sets (7 disks, not
> large but the IO gets down  when we spread the datbase over them)  2
> always mirrored, and the 3 mirrored and then taken out (dismounted)
> once a day to get a backup. And then backup to tape once a week. (no
> manual work, other thn checking the NBU logs).
>
> The rest of Itanium is running SAN as a storage and it works - I like
> it.
>
> Sorry for my english, thinking its getting worse by the years, as I
> dont use it.

Your English is still good.  You write better than some of our native 
speakers!  Said native speakers have to be heard to be believed.  I once 
heard a native speaker of American English say: "Her and Bruce went to a 
movie."  I'm sure he drove his teachers out of their minds!
It's what he learned "at his mother's knee."

For those non-English speaking Americans present; the "correct" version
is "She and Bruce went to a movie."