[Info-vax] SBB power supplies failing slowly

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-03-28, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> I've seen this before, about a year ago, then it happened again in 
> another BA356: Disks go offline and into mount verification, then come 
> back after a minute or so.  The process repeats every ten minutes.  Of 
> course, being VMS, the cluster continues and practically nothing else is 
> affected, but it is annoying.
>

Careful Phillip. How do you know that you are not getting silent data
corruption if your power supplies are in this state ?

>
> I need the Top Gun Blue (that's really the official colour!) 180W 
> versions.  If anyone has any in Scandinavia, Germany, Benelux, England, 
> Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, or northwestern Croatia I could probably 
> collect them sometime this year, probably before autumn.  Rest of the 
> Balkan: next year.
>

Any part of Europe you have _not_ driven through ? :-)

> I also plan to be in the southeast USA soon so would be happy to collect 
> there as well.  (Apparently they run on 50 or 60 Hz and anything between 
> 100 and 240 volts.)
>

That could make for an interesting discussion when you try leaving
the US again. :-)

Simon.

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