RE: subject: iSeries Legends

We have an E04 that has been up since 1991.  The DRIVE (6606) died in it
during the first year, and it has not Had ANY down time in the next 12
years, with the exception of 2 office moves.  (this box only has one drive,
so there is NO RAID or mirroring) 

We really don't use it for anything any more, with the exception of
sometimes needing a v2r3 box to duplicate something a customer might have.
We let it sit in our computer room now more to see WHEN/IF it will die.
Sadly, we will probably be putting it out to pasture next week cause we need
the space in the cabinet it resides in.
cjg

Carl J. Galgano
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 12:57 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: subject: iSeries Legends


On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Don wrote:
>
> Anyone heard of a Windows or unix box running for that long? :)
>

Windows, no.   Unix, yes.

My FreeBSD servers all run without any downtime at all.  My web server
http://www.scottklement.com went about 900 days without a single second
of downtime before a recent power failure.   When the power was restored,
it went right back to serving requests.  And, that machine is not just my
web server, it also does various things with e-mail, some application
programs, and services for other domains.

My iSeries does not even come close to this level of reliability.  We've
only had this system for 2 years, and it's already had instability due to
software bugs (fixed by PTF, but that required a re-IPL), a drive failure,
and corrupt disk objects that meant the system had to be taken down to run
RCLSTG.

I think the reason people are impressed by the iSeries reliability is
because Windows has made us think that an operating system that runs
normally without crashing is some sort of miracle.    It's not.   It's
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