Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2320E1337B47 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:14:48 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13302-09 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:14:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com (mail-iy0-f174.google.com [209.85.210.174]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3F51337B68 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:14:37 -0300 (ADT) Received: by iyb14 with SMTP id 14so1074375iyb.19 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:14:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:thread-index :content-language:x-cr-hashedpuzzle:x-cr-puzzleid; bh=4X7jrSQXHoJslcsU069zJJB9V+rjbm7yDNRELdE6fYc=; b=ikliT3pD1qBbqIWkY/+W1csv4Rokgl9ZJFwFy/u0g9rqcy7dMxGj3MiFSi5jFIiFV+ eE18vWQlaAS79wQ9NYLxndaI8hauiJ8iWJ/diKbbm/WmgAWRidSJ1BUWurFzJkWUQb1s N1FNpptV1Cu6UPvEAVS7qOAGnzl13M5eb2I6c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:thread-index:content-language :x-cr-hashedpuzzle:x-cr-puzzleid; b=u9R5FyadQH9mZhl6Px3HFCTDEMNdnv5QONnDyDdoEx4LGxtDozP747q5+uLWk9ANdJ LvIfR45mTx6OX8gqmtf3aGf3Cm7LR6iRLHFcjlt7gKROCUZ3DxRfQ2AoMvP+vFxZiHlk DzS4GrOnlWfNYeRP0R8tPgmnIM3XH28kVfMWo= Received: by 10.231.29.101 with SMTP id p37mr6582002ibc.3.1303352078377; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:14:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Duality (174-29-69-53.hlrn.qwest.net [174.29.69.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gx2sm576808ibb.9.2011.04.20.19.14.36 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:14:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "mark" To: Subject: rant ? check the BBWC Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:14:35 -0600 Message-ID: <023801cbffc9$dcdd2160$96976420$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: Acv/ydqIw2LwDeDzR4GvAn0IT6ohNQ== Content-Language: en-us x-cr-hashedpuzzle: Ahbe Bmv6 B3Dq CXPi D4tT Eb+2 EyLB FL+F GJdv Gejy Gev5 JIDd JPQR J1+C KOJ2 LpOv; 1; cABnAHMAcQBsAC0AcABlAHIAZgBvAHIAbQBhAG4AYwBlAEAAcABvAHMAdABnAHIAZQBzAHEAbAAuAG8AcgBnAA==; Sosha1_v1; 7; {7A9AE35F-33BD-43B3-ADBB-D9AF3DD0881E}; ZAB2AGwAaABuAHQAcgBAAGcAbQBhAGkAbAAuAGMAbwBtAA==; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:14:33 GMT; cgBhAG4AdAAgAD8AIAAgACAAIAAgAGMAaABlAGMAawAgAHQAaABlACAAQgBCAFcAQwA= x-cr-puzzleid: {7A9AE35F-33BD-43B3-ADBB-D9AF3DD0881E} X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.898 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RFC_ABUSE_POST=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201104/288 X-Sequence-Number: 43350 So sometime along yellow brick firmware road HP changed (and maybe your vendor did too) the output of what happens when the write cache is off due to failed batteries attached to the card/cache. (and no they don't always beep with a self test in case someone happens to be walking near your cage, and yes you will be wondering why batteries attached to these things are not hot swappable.) So yeah -- even if you were pretty sure some code had properly checked with say nagios checks (or whatever) and were monitoring them... if someone hasn't replaced a dead battery in a while you should probably be wondering why. Now go forth and test/ your HA/DR plans, check you raid and UPS batteries, test your monitoring (again). -M