DoN. Nichols wrote:
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> Hmm ... that is on the order of two years steady on time. Has
> the box really been on that long? And the 200K hours works out to 22.82
> years. That does not sound even remotely possible, even if it is the
> sum of all powered on time since they were manufactured.
>
> Is it possible that you have been getting power glitches which
> may have corrupted the NVRAM in the drives?

i'd have to check the uptime on my file server, but it's been on for
a little less than a year. last time it was out was when we lost power
long enough for my UPSs to die. June maybe. quite odd indeed.

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> company, as the original Cramolin apparently fell afoul of the anti-CFC
> rules which make Freon so hard to get these days. You would spray both
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i'm guessing you're in Florida?
quite too far away, but you can get Freon in Mexico dirt cheap. funny
how the tree-huggers in the US make such a big stink (no put intended)
about polution here but never say anything about what goes on right
across the river.

> Start with "man metainit". That will point you to a bunch of
> other commands (in the "SEE ALSO" section):

thanks to you and Dave for pointing this out.

> It is amazing the number of things which are buried in Solaris
> 10 which are not obvious until someone else stumbles across them and
> points them out to you. :-)

no kidding. i've been messing with UN*X for about 8 years now and i
still stumble upon something i didn't know you could do.

thanks again.

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