Re: Instance won't start up after powerfail

Stan Brown <stanb_at_panix.com> wrote in message news:<c78kfk$o67$1_at_reader2.panix.com>...
> In <4096cc22$0$32558$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au> "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> writes:
>
> >Stan Brown wrote:
>
> >> In <c75lsu$p5g$05$1_at_news.t-online.com> "Dorian Büttner" <dorian.buettner_at_gmx.de> writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>>is it data file 6
> >>>or '/db_local3/oradata/pwhse/tables/trend.dbf'
> >>>?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> For the record, that was it.
> >>
> >> Thanks to everyne!
>
> >Also for the record, Richard's original advice was 100% correct for
> >version 8.0 and upwards (file number alone is sufficient there).
> >Clearly, version 7 (which, like me, he probably doesn't have a museum
> >capable of running) was a bit different!
>
> >Glad you got it sorted this time Stan without hassle! (PS... ever
> >thought of buying a UPS??)
>
> It's on a 75KVA industrial UPS, which has 2 feeds from 2 different buses,
> and it's powered by the 125VDC station bateries that control the switchgear
> in the same location.
>
> But hardware cannot overcome incompetence in people. Putting the UPS in
> "bypass", and ifnoring the "UPS not in sync" alarm on the computer screen,
> and opening random breakers without authiriztion can overcome even the best
> hardware.
>
> Srry, I'm stilll upset about this!

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And of course, the loudest sound I ever heard, including '70's rock concerts, was a 1 Farad capacitor:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=68wNsB1w165w%40netlink.cts.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain

I'm _still_ laughing about it.

jg

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