I agree with you Chuck,  I never the system go back up properly either with
TC.

Jean

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Could it be that TC command does not work if you h
ave a power failure?


> Actually, I do not trust the TC command, it has always seemed unstable to
> me.
>
> During an upgrade on our HP939ks I ran into some problems and HPRC wanted
me
> to reboot. The engineer told me to use the TC command instead of RS, I
> disagreed but he insisted. When the system started comming back up I saw
> several error messages that I had never seen before and once fully up we
> could not access the tape drive to read the dump tape.
>
> He then decided the original problem was caused by a hardware problem,
when
> originally it was obviously a software problem, I argued a bit and then
> informed him I was going to do a RS. He said go ahead but doubted it would
> do any good. The system then came up fine and he was able to analyze the
> dump and see the problem. ( Which turned out to be a user for a deleted
> account still existed and when the upgrade tried to create the account, it
> failed with a duplicate entry in the directory error ).
>
> This is an extreme example, but I have noticed several times in the past
> that when TC was used some hardware acted strangely until another restart
> was performed with an RS.
>
> I now avoid TC unless HPRC demands it.
>