Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:37:19 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, (marino.ladavac@siemens.at) <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.at>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: SCSI Bus redundancy... Message-ID: <199803062137.OAA28712@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <l03020903b12615386f92@[194.32.164.2]> References: <199803060729.IAA29905@ws6423.gud.siemens.at> <XFMail.980306100252.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> <l03020903b12615386f92@[194.32.164.2]>
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> >Wrong again. Diesel generators have a 15-180 seconds switch over time. > > True. It's also not widely realised that they aren't awfully reliable. They > fail to start one time in N, regardless of how often you start them. N used > to be about 15 last time I had anything much to do with them. Actually, if you keep them warm they start pretty reliably. My dad does some work for a local radio station, and they've keep warm oil pumping through it *all* the time, and keep the room where it's housed warm. (That's pretty easy to do considering the amount of heat the 100KW transmitter puts out. :) They haven't had a failure yet (since they started doing that) at the remote site, but they are also very careful about doing regular maintenance on it. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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