HP3000-L Archives

February 2005, Week 4

HP3000-L@RAVEN.UTC.EDU

Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Craig Lalley <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Craig Lalley <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 22 Feb 2005 05:05:00 -0800
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (25 lines)
--- Goetz Neumann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> while I agree on the protection aspect, I would suggest to leave
> a bootable MPE Image on an internal disk.  This can be very handy
> e.g. to run offline diagnostics from it,  and if you'd had SAN
> trouble, you could run ODE Mapper to find them FC disks 'out there'.
>

While I agree with keeping a bootable MPE partition on the internal disk, there is also another
very useful aspect.  It is a product called "Dump to Disc" which comes from HP.  With the large
memory systems currently availble, dumping to tape becomes a VERY slow process.

-Craig




__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.
http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, *
* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *

ATOM RSS1 RSS2