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Subject: RA81 spinup after power outage
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Date: Sat, 21-Feb-87 09:52:36 EST
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>Does anyone know of a way to have RA81's spin themselve up after a power
>glitch like RM05's (also RA60's)? We have a two VAX cluster, with RA81's,
>RA60's, and RM05's.  We also have battery backup for the memory, and PDS's
>to distribute the power.  My only complaint is that if the power goes off for
>a second or two (which is what happens in 90% of the cases(), the jobs are
>still running, the RM05's come back up on their own, but someone has to go
>down to the computer room and re-spin the RA drives.

Something's wrong here.  The VAXCluster I used to manage had 5-7 RA81s,
two HSC50s and lots of power outages (we blow up BIG transformers here).
The RA81s, RM80s and RA60s would usually spin up by themselves unless
they experienced some type of failure (one RM80 liked to toss its drive
belt on occassion).  Once the HSC50s rebooted, the system would taken
right off again on a (very) short power outage or the VAXes reboot on
longer ones.  Talk to your field service people, something is not right!