[Info-vax] swap and page files

[Paul Sture]

In article <kc1uf9$2bi$1 at online.de>,
 helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) 
 wrote:

> In article <nospam-40BC21.17383902012013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
> <nospam at sture.ch> writes: 
> 
> > > Back to VMS.  I have now replaced all my grey BA356 with blue ones.
> > > During the first change, I shut down the node while I powered off the
> > > box.  For the second one, I forgot.  However, apart from some expected
> > > mount verification, there was no problem.  How easy is it on other
> > > systems to power down the system disk then power it back on? 
> > 
> > That's an interesting question.  VMS is the only system I have come 
> > across in recent years which can survive a system disk going off line.
> 
> Several years ago, while sorting cables at home, I accidentally pulled 
> the SCSI cable from the system-disk shadow set on a VAX.  Apart from 
> some mount-verification messages, no effect.  Literally the next day at 
> work I was re-arranging some cables under my desk and pulled out the 
> mouse from a PC.  Had to reboot.  No joke.  Nuff said.  :-)

I once got away with knocking a whole bank of disks offline for a few 
seconds.  I was expecting at least something in the logs but there was 
nothing.

I have had the mouse thing more recently with a Windows 7 system, when 
plugging in a new mouse.  The strange thing was that the new mouse 
functioned quite adequately to navigate and perform the requested 
restart...

-- 
Paul Sture