Re: Puzzling System Action

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

IMHO you shouldn't have used them in the first place...I got REALLY
concerned back when they first came out and REQUIRED that a PC(!~!) be
attached...that just sounded tooo hokey for me...

I don't mix/match anything but OEM hardware on the CPU...heard/had too
many horror stories...

Sorry you had the problem dude..

Don

On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, David Gibbs wrote:

> Dave:
> 
> Some time ago I had some SERIOUS problems with EMC drives durring an upgrade
> from CISC to RISC.
> 
> It's a very long story, but the short version is: Objects were going
> dammaged for no apparernt reason and the ultimate reason was found to
> be a Microcode incompatiblity between the RISC system and the older
> EMC drives.
> 
> We had a VLIC programmer on our system (via ECS) to debug the drive
> access code to determine when and where the objects were going
> dammaged.
> 
> EMC upgraded the drives to newer versions for free and everything started
> working.
> 
> We were 100% out of commission for 1+ week and it was loke pulling teath
> to get EMC to admit they had a problem.
> 
> I won't use EMC drives ever again.
> 
> david
> 
> > I added 9337 EMC equivalent painted RAID 5 into a new asp on system
> > running V3R2 with the latest cum ptf.
> 
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