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Re: Operate until failure
From: Andy Walden <andy () tigerteam net>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:27:07 -0600 (CST)
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Shawn McMahon wrote:
We have a generator, but we have had two amazing coincidences cause it to fail. The first time, the generator was fine, but the switch didn't switch. The person who was signing off (erroneously) that he was checking that switch monthly lost his job shortly before we stopped using his company entirely. We discovered the problem when the batteries reached the point where it was supposed to cut over, and the entire data center went dark. That was a very, very bad day.
I recall that ominous depressing feeling sitting by myself in a dark data center at 3 in the morning, with nothing but the lights of my equipment, listening to the rectifiers beeping and as the batteries went dead, hearing machines drop off one by one until it was completely dark... andy
Current thread:
- Operate until failure Sean Donelan (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure Nathan Stratton (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure Eric Whitehill (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure Shawn McMahon (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure Andy Walden (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure Shawn McMahon (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure Shawn McMahon (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure Eric Whitehill (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure Nathan Stratton (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure Henry Yen (Feb 24)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Operate until failure Sean Donelan (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure David Lesher (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure Dalvenjah FoxFire (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure bmanning (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure Eric A. Hall (Feb 24)