Ha Ha Linear Actuators! I used to work on those for Data General. Man when one those would snap back from an emergency condition you better hope your fingers were out of the way. J
Michael any chance your presentation will be available later on the net? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 7:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: dell rant [OT reply] Yep. I'm giving one "from the field" presentation on 2003 -> 2010 upgrades and a pre-conference workshop on HA in 2010 for all server roles (not just MB). Gonna see you there? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 8:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: dell rant [OT reply] Hey <old man>...I used to make the 80 pound "motors" that drove the head assembly on those washing machines J Actually the I made the coils that were part of the bobbins inside the motors. Less skilled workers made the heavy parts...LOL The engineers called them linear actuators and hated when someone referred to them as motors so of course that's what we all called them. </old man redux> You going to TEC LA this year? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 10:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: dell rant [OT reply] <old man alert> Shades of the mainframe! WAY BACK when "Winchester" was the new SCSI disk technology, both IBM and Unisys did this. Their "cheap SCSI" disk controllers were modified so that you could only attach disk that the mainframe company provided. Which they charged 10 times the going rate for. Still, it was cheaper and faster than the old "washing machine" removable disk drives. </old man alert> Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: dell rant Ive been a solid dell guy for years but this is about as aggravating as it comes. We have a new server that cannot get the 2.5 15k rpm drives for several weeks due to manufacturing problems. We went and got drives from hp and the drive caddys so everything is great right? NOT, if you have a new Dell 700 raid controller you can only use Dell certified drives, the drives are 'blocked' on the controller >From the manual "troubleshooting"section: Issue: One or more physical disks is displayed as Blocked and can not be configured. Corrective Action PERC H700 and PERC H800 cards support only Dell-certified SAS and SATA hard drives and solid-state drives (SSD). If you are using a Dell-certified drive but are still experiencing this problem, perform the following actions: 1. Check the backplane for damage. 2. Check the SAS cables. 3. Reseat the physical disk. 4. Contact Dell Technical Support if the problem persists This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately via e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake; then, delete this e-mail from your system. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
