[FQuest Alert] LOLA

[Terra]

LOLA has suffered the same fate as ZOOMER, and had to be forcibly rebooted...

I was in the DC earlier this morning to pull down some old drives, as there is no need wasting electricity and generating heat by spinning the old 18GB drives...

Everybody asks, if you have Hot Swap, why do you have to take down the server... Well this morning, I gave it a shot, since I was not plugging a new one in, but rather pulling an old one out...

Once again, I am reminded that the Adaptec SCSI driver, still does not gracefully handle any device removals/additions to the SCSI bus... The only thing it gracefully handles is if a device fails... It will gripe and moan for a couple minutes before signalling up to the RAID layer that "Hey, this drive just died - you might want to do something about it"...

Of all the Linux Enterprise touted features, they really need to dig deep into the SCSI layer and give it a good overhaul... I believe they have done just that with Linux 2.6, but I would still be highly skeptical of it...

LOLA's downtime spanned from: 7:47 to 8:03

My apologies for the resultant downtime this drive removal caused...

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Terra
sysAdmin
FutureQuest

[kitchin]

I can never remember whether I need to right-click the icon for my digital camera disk and click "eject" before taking it out... in Win98 or WinXP. Which one? So I do it in both. Or is the USB device icon?

Oh my little problems.

[Randall]

I can never remember whether I need to right-click the icon for my digital camera disk and click "eject" before taking it out... in Win98 or WinXP. Which one? XP should allow you to just pull the plug, the main reason why I'm upgrading from Win2K next week.

Didn't know you could "eject" the drive that way -- I've always used the USB device icon.

Randall

[dank]

I tried several variations in W2K, and the only one I could get working consistently was to just pull the CF card out when I was done. To use it in the reader again later, I'd have to put the card in, get no response, remove it, get an error message that it had been removed incorrectly, then put it back in and all would be good.

What was the topic of this thread again? :\

Dan

[Randall]

Things like the Norton Protected Recycle Bin (grrr) can intefere with USB drives. And if a program that was accessing the drive is still running, the system may not allow you to eject it properly.

Randall