Re: Instance won't start up after powerfail

In <91884734.0405041515.1454d7f2_at_posting.google.com> joel-garry_at_home.com (Joel Garry) writes:

>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!

>http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=6dnn80%24q7h%241%40pebble.ml.org&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain

>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.

OK, those war stories helped me feel less lonely :-)

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