Newsgroups: ont.uucp
Path: utzoo!lsuc!tmsoft!mason
From: mason@tmsoft.uucp (Dave Mason)
Subject: Toronto Hydro (was re: sq down for the count)
Message-ID: <1989Mar16.024344.17471@tmsoft.uucp>
Followup-To: ont.uucp
Reply-To: mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason)
Organization: TM Software Associates, Toronto
References: <1989Mar15.173203.23116@utzoo.uucp>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 02:43:44 GMT

In article <1989Mar15.173203.23116@utzoo.uucp> ian@utzoo.uucp (Ian F. Darwin) writes:
>SQ (aka sq.com) lost its power supply yesterday morning; the replacement
>was DOA; the second replacement works but now the disk system is
>acting up. When it rains, it pours! Watch this space for future
>developments in the area of hardware bashing and delayed mail/news.

I think Toronto Hydro was putting out some nasty power over the
weekend.  There was a 15 minute power failure in the southeast of the
city on, I think, Saturday.  Fortunately tmsoft is on a UPS.

2 computers at Ryerson (these don't have a UPS (although the mainframe
does)), where there WASN'T a power failure as far as I know, went
catatonic (at about the same time as the power failure).  Both
rebooted OK, but one seems to have had some disk controller logic
lightly toasted...it works fine except when it freezes up which it's
done twice this week.

I think that other parts of the power grid may have had spikes and
other uglies while they scrambled to get power back to the southeast.
Are the people who know what they're doing still on strike?  The
supervisory people may make messier power when they're bringing stuff
back online.  Any opinions?
	../Dave