This is an FYI for anyone that has an Alpha Personal Workstation 433au. On
this system I noticed that we were getting Disk SCSI errors at the rate of
1 to 2 a day. I spoke with Compaq and they wanted to replace the disk
drive. Since this is our Library database system and it would have to be
rebuilt from scratch by the vendor this was going to be a major pain. The
vendor, Innovative Software, stated that they had seen this problem before
and suggested we remove the item PWRMGR_ENABLED in the system configuration
file, rebuild the kernel, replace the old kernel with the new one and
reboot. I did this and as advertised the SCSI errors went away. The
system apparently was not that busy and the disks would spin dow to save
power and then when they were addressed by the software we would get an
error. I was sure thankful that this fixed the problem because it saved me
a very late night.
Just thouht I would post this in case someone else is sees this problem it
might help you.
Paul Crittenden
Computer System Manager
Simpson College
e-mail: crittend_at_simpson.edu
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Received on Tue Sep 07 1999 - 14:01:15 NZST