[Info-vax] analyze/disk errors

[tadamsmar]

On Friday, February 7, 2014 5:46:47 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2014-02-07 21:58:32 +0000, tadamsmar said:
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> > On Friday, February 7, 2014 10:59:24 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
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> >> I would encourage getting yourself a formal escalation path here; 
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> >> somebody that you can discuss this stuff with.
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> > Thanks, but we'd rather just remain sitting in this nice pot of slowing 
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> > warming water.
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> Looking at your posting history here, you're potentially not getting 
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> the most out of your existing OpenVMS bits, and you're probably not 
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> going to be porting until after the current management or the current 
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> hardware and software gear ages out.  You're clearly currently planning 
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> on running the gear into the ground.  Getting an escalation path means 
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> getting somebody to discuss options and alternatives for making your 
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> current warm water soak more comfortable and more manageable, for 
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> stocking up on parts, and for avoiding or reducing those unsightly 
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> wrinkles that can form during longer poaching^Wsoaking.
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> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

I recently got management to stock in 3 bare bones Alpha DS10 600mhz (We have 6 systems running, and 1 of those has nothing to do, and 1 is a development system that can serve as a spare.)

We have UPSes on all of the systems for hardware preservation.  These old systems are bad about failing in a power outage.  We powered down our systems during the federal shutdown and one of them would not come back up apparently due to a failure on the motherboard since the power supply checked out with a volt meter.

I am planning to stock in some disks. All our disks are shadowed.

I have only one spare graphics card, one spare SCSI cable, and no spare SCSI cards, CD drives, tape drives, or floppy drives (unless the bare bones systems have floppy drives, I don't recall)

It's pretty easy for me to make purchases under $250.  Need more approval for higher value purchases.

But, I guess you are talking about hardware options that I am not even considering.