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Re: How serious are those Storage Works problems?

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From: Michael E Willett
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 1994 18:59
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>Which RAID was it?

The article doesn't say, but there were two separate DEC RAIDs
with problems.  The article reads:

...."It turns out that a known engineering fault exists in Digital's 
StorageWorks RAID system.  Remove and replace a drive too often and 
you'll blow a diode that in turn brings the entire system to a screeching
halt.  But there is more.  The unit on display in the Digital booth was 
having fits as well.  And to make matters even worse, the StorageWorks
product manager admitted onstage during his Test Center interview that 
the problem had been recognized for nearly the entire four months since 
the company began shipping the product."

The headline of this article is "Mum's the Word: Keeping StorageWorks 
flaw quiet--Digital Loses Goodwill."  The rest of the article is a rather 
hard-hitting editorial about the DEC "sinking ship" and what this all 
means.  I would imagine Mr. Palmer is not too happy about this article,
or the situation.  I'm surprised that there hasn't been one of those 
hourly DEC press releases on this yet.  I imagine there will be a lot of
touch questions about this topic at DECUS.

Mike Willett
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Subject: Re: How serious are those Storage Works problems?
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