Re: How to simulate a disk failure

From: damorgan <dan.morgan_at_ci.seattle.wa.us>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 22:27:49 GMT
Message-ID: <3C5F0AE5.B1A4542B@ci.seattle.wa.us>

Unplug the disk from the controller. But check with your hardware vendor before doing this.

I can not, and will not, be responsible for damage done on your hardware.

Daniel Morgan

Leigh Gold wrote:

> We have a test machine which we use to test our backup and recovery
> procedure.
>
> I was trying to simulate a disk failure by deleting datafiles from a
> particular disk drive (D) but kept getting 'sharing violation' error. Oracle
> is running at that time and not other users are on. Any idea why I couldn't
> delete those files?
>
> It is Win NT 4.0 with oracle 8.1.6.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Leigh
Received on Mon Feb 04 2002 - 16:27:49 CST