Marti,

I'm glad you brought this up.  I would strongly recommend *against*
shutting down the hardware, especially if you have any older disks on the
system.  There is some anecdotal evidence (an oxymoron?) that the older
disk platters tend to get somewhat sticky once you turn them off after
having them on for a long time. I think that it makes sense to close down
applications but leave all the hardware up and running.

Bill Lancaster

At 03:48 PM 12/15/1999 -0800, Marti Jarsey wrote:
>Dear Listers,
>
>We are a manufacturing site and have put together our end of the
>year/rollover plan.  There is one issue which seems to be open to debate:
>whether or not to power off the 3K and 9K SPUs during the rollover.  My
>preference is to shut down applications but leave the hardware and OS
>running.
>
>Any thoughts on the pros/cons of leaving the systems up?  What are your
>sites planning?