If anyone has received a new 760 with the on board fibre channel, make sure your SE had an additional fibre card available as a spare. They are have serious problems with the onboard fibre cards and they don't have any replacement at this time. I have lost 2 now and am waiting for a replacement, meanwhile I am down. Just didn't want this to happen to anyone else.
In the immortal words of Ron Neuenberger (ron@cybercowboys.com):
If anyone has received a new 760 with the on board fibre channel, make sure your SE had an additional fibre card available as a spare. They are have serious problems with the onboard fibre cards and they don't have any replacement at this time. I have lost 2 now and am waiting for a replacement, meanwhile I am down. Just didn't want this to happen to anyone else.
Allow me to add my voice to that, underlined and in boldface. Bad juju, kids, and don't let it happen to you.
On the plus side, during my encounter with this issue, I discovered that a set of $0.35 foam earplugs can significantly reduce the amount of tinnitus and head pain normally caused by 18+ hour stretches in a machine room.
-n
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I could have used those earplugs recently, when two days after I spent 23 hours replacing a failing F540 with a new F740, the F740 failed. 10 hours later, we figured out it was the FC controller, replaced the motherboard (thank god the se had another F740 in his office and that he thought to bring it with him), and two hours later had the system up and running. We have a spare FC PCI card now, too.
It would seem it's a bigger problem than just the F760s. :-(
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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Nathan J. Mehl wrote:
In the immortal words of Ron Neuenberger (ron@cybercowboys.com):
If anyone has received a new 760 with the on board fibre channel, make sure your SE had an additional fibre card available as a spare. They are have serious problems with the onboard fibre cards and they don't have any replacement at this time. I have lost 2 now and am waiting for a replacement, meanwhile I am down. Just didn't want this to happen to anyone else.
Allow me to add my voice to that, underlined and in boldface. Bad juju, kids, and don't let it happen to you.
On the plus side, during my encounter with this issue, I discovered that a set of $0.35 foam earplugs can significantly reduce the amount of tinnitus and head pain normally caused by 18+ hour stretches in a machine room.
-n
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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
It would seem it's a bigger problem than just the F760s. :-(
Ugh, don't say that... I've got two F740's doing Oracle duty here which haven't given us any such problems in their eight months here (crossing fingers). We have a CF'd pair of F740's that haven't been put into production yet though, so at least we can cannabalize parts from them if needed...
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