Many years ago working for a defense contractor, we were not allowed to turn on the AC until a specific date on post. Rather than get an exception, they opened the door to the computer room to the outside. Within 6 months we lost every disk drive due to unfiltered air. On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Lange, Kevin G <kevin.lange@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Half a Million Dollar AIX system kept having main system drive failures > costing the Electric Utility who owned the Nuclear Plant undergoing its > 18 month Maintenance Outage about One-Hundred Thousand dollars a day in > delay costs. > > Cause: 1 25 cent chip on the hot-swap carriage the disk was mounted in. > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeremy Schneider > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 4:07 PM > To: oracle-l > Subject: 1 minutes: best downtime story > > Hey all - > > I'm writing a paper about top causes of downtime. As one component of > research, I'd like to get some input from you! > > One minute, two sentences. First sentence: describe what went down. > Second sentence: describe why. (I have to categorize all of these.) > Everyone should have at least one downtime story so I'm hoping for a lot > of feedback! > > Answer about any technology - database, operating system, etc. > > Thanks! > > -Jeremy > > > -- > Jeremy Schneider > Pythian Consulting Group > Chicago > > +1 312-725-9249 > http://www.pythian.com > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or > proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity > to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended > recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified > that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is > prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the > sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.' -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l