From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 5 12:10:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11825 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 12:10:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peedub.muc.de (newpc.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11768 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 12:10:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA15534 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 21:11:45 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199803052011.VAA15534@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SCSI Bus redundancy... Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Mar 1998 19:43:16 +0100." <199803041843.TAA01389@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 21:11:45 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wilko Bulte writes: >> We had that on VAXes with VMS (Not AT&T Unix, and I do not think BSD). > > A couple of years ago while working at Philips Info Systems we had a > SysV2 derivative that could do powerfail/restart (as we called it). > It used some battery backed up RAM, and it was not a PC (M68K cpu). > Having never worked on that kernel I don't know how they did it. > But it worked pretty well. > hey ! I did that while I was at UniSoft (RIP). Glad that _somebody_ thought it was OK. I could probably wake up enough brain cells to say how it worked (it was about 11 years ago). It was one of the more interesting projects I worked on at the Munich office. Spent the longest 3 months of my life in Eindhoven finishing up a port to a 68020 system for Philips. --- Gary Jennejohn Home - garyj@muc.de Work - garyj@fkr.dec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message