bring up tape drive

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Phillip Qin wrote:

> Dell tech support told me to unplug the data cable, power down the system
> and then power up the server, hold eject button. I think it is ridiculous
> because it is a web server, how can you expect any down time?

Hi Phillip.  Downtime is inevitable.  If you really feel you can't take 
the server down then setup (at least) a cold fail-over right now.  Then 
when you have a cold fail-over, fail-over to it, take the main server down 
and fix the problem.

Rob

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