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   Simon Clubley to arne@vajhoej.dk   
   Re: Oracle (Rdb) on OpenVMS   
   19 Aug 25 12:50:44   
   
   From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-08-18, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   >   
   > I have been there. Early 00's. Old mid 90's Alpha's with disks that   
   > occasionally went bad. Gray and green StorageWorks for those that are   
   > interested. We bought a pile of disks from IslandCo. Did a disk go bad,   
   > then pull it out and put a new one in and the RAID controller rebuilt.   
   >   
      
   Thanks for reminding me of those times Arne. :-( I used to have to deal   
   with the Mylex RAID controller and _had_ successfully purged that   
   knowledge from my memory. :-)   
      
   OTOH, I do have positive memories of DSSI-based systems.   
      
   Simon.   
      
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