"Johnson, Tracy" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>It was a dark and stormy night.
>
>So, after dripping water on our 959 for 8 hours, our machine faulted
at = 7:30AM just before I got in to work.
>
>After an hour of letting it dry it comes up to the boot prompt, but
>after I enter "Y" to interact with the IPL, it tells me:
>
>-----------------------------------------
>
>IPL erro: bad LIF magic.
> .... FAILED
>
>Terminating selection process.
>No boot device found.
>
>-----------------------------------------
>
>So this tells me I need to call in an HP CE for repair.
>
>Is this so or are there other solutions?  UPDATE from CLST?
>
>Our boot device is a Model 20 array and it shows no error on LDEV 1 =
>Mirrored Pair although the hot spare kicked in in LDEV 2.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>BT
>Tracy Johnson
>MSI Schaevitz Sensors

Hurray for HP hardware! Truly a testament to quality minded
engineering. I'd like to suggest a torture test the same as the above -
on other manufacturer's hardware. IBM, Sun, Dell, et al: up to the
test? How about the IBM people that monitor this list? Up to the
challenge? Sounds like a great sales point that the customer can put in
their disaster recovery plans "hardware survives 8 hours of dripping
water torture test."

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