MTBF of decades, provided nothing extra-boneheaded happens, like short out
your main power panel in the basement. Oh, the fireworks that happened up
here on THAT day several years ago.
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On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Richard Hitt wrote:
> Hi, Jim
>
> Since Paul's on South African time and I'm here in California, I had a
go.
>
> The UTS Global Tape Subsystem includes the command tapevary(8), used
> mainly to vary online a tape drive to the system. So, "tapevary on
> 3028" varies drive 3028 online. It causes the UTSG tape driver to
> perform an attach, and "tapevary off 3028" performs an unattach. If I
> have 3028 varied online to one VM Linux and try to vary it online at
> another, the "Drive Assigned Elsewhere" message appears.
>
> So consider it verified, at least under VM. We had a power outrage, um,
> outage, today and besides I see no recognition in our driver's code that
Hmm. Seems to me that zBoxes are dropping like flies;-)
I was at an IBM presentation the other day, where they were talking
about MTBF of decades.
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Cheers
John.
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