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  • Subject: RE: IBM Pubs
  • From: "Gary R. Patterson" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 09:18:29 -0500
  • Importance: Normal

I should note that I have no idea if this is actually true, or not.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Gary R. Patterson
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 8:42 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: IBM Pubs

On the comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc newsgroup, I saw a post that contained this:

(This was quoted in another message, and the sender information was not
quoted, so I do not know who the source is.)

> A thunderstorm knocked out power to the Rochester site Friday about noon
> CST.  Power was out for an hour, and it was expected to take several
> hours just to get all the local servers back online, much less public
> web servers.  (They sent everyone home for the rest of the day,
> something that cost roughly a quarter million dollars by my
> back-of-the-envelope estimate, so you can imagine how serious this
> problem was.)  They may still be having some problems as a result of
> that outage -- any time you lose power you lose a certain % of disk
> drives, and there are lots of disk drives at the Rochester site.
>
> It's unfortunate that the problem occurred just before a holiday weekend
> like this, since a lot of the people who knew how to take care of things
> were off.  Barring a serious problem, I would anticipate that everything
> will be up and running normally by Tuesday afternoon.


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