RE: Y2K Switchoff

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:08 09/28/1999 , Glenn Ericson wrote:
>Sounds  like  solid  logic  to me.
>         Glenn
>
>At 12:19 PM 9/28/99 -0500, John Cirocco wrote:
> >Colin,
> >
> >   We are bringing our plants mission critical pieces Friday and bringing
> >them up Sunday morning.  We have been told that the local energy supplier
> >expects no MAJOR problems but there is always the possibility of
> >localized problems.  Since my UPS has minutes vs. hours of uptime, we
> >felt it best to shut the stuff down.

I've been thinking about that too. The only concern I would have is what if 
one or (shudder) two of the disk drives refuse to spin up? If everything 
cools off for 8 hours or so, might this be a problem? I propose doing a 
complete system save immediately before. Maybe even two of them.

Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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