Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!prodigy.com!atl-c02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!peer01.cox.net!peer02.cox.net!cox.net!panix!stanb From: Stan Brown Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Instance won't start up after powerfail Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 16:58:07 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <4096cc22$0$32558$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <91884734.0405041515.1454d7f2@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1083776287 12008 166.84.1.2 (5 May 2004 16:58:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 16:58:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:260873 In <91884734.0405041515.1454d7f2@posting.google.com> joel-garry@home.com (Joel Garry) writes: >Stan Brown wrote in message news:... >> In <4096cc22$0$32558$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> "Howard J. Rogers" writes: >> >> >Stan Brown wrote: >> >> >> In "Dorian Büttner" 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 :-) -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin