Alex wrote:

>We bought our F50 back in 1998 and it's still being used as main
>database server (Oracle8i) for our Accounts and Purchasing Depts.
>Later on we did some updrades from 1 CPU/512M RAM to 4CPU/2G RAM, put
>extra ULTRA3 controllers and 18 disk spindles into it (be careful with
>SCSI cables if installing 6-packs yourself, they can be damaged fairly
>easily). We upgraded AIX as well from 4.2.1 to 4.3.3 ML11.
>As of now the machine works fine, NEVER had crashes since 1998, uptime
>is 936 days as of today (after changing the network card to Gigabit
>Ethernet and rebooting), the only problem we had is SCSI disks failed
>couple of times but since they're all mirrored - we just replaced and
>re-mirrored them.
>
That sounds pretty awesome Alex. Do you recall what controllers you put
in there? I put in a second 6-pack but don't have a controller for it yet.
Thanks for the feedback.
J.

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