[PLUG] Tape Drives and Power Supplies ( was strange crashes ... )

[Rogan Creswick]

On 08 Jan 2005 22:01:36 -0800, Russell Senior <seniorr at aracnet.com> wrote:
> I guess it could still be some fault on the SCSI card or the cable,
> but I guess I am coming back to the power supply as the currently most
> likely culprit.  I am still not clear how the tape backup could be
> inducing a dodgy power supply to shut off the computer, particularly
> when the failure occurs well (like hours in some cases) into the
> backup, but then again *nothing* about this is clear.

Could the tapedrive be causing unusualy high disk activity? (reading
from numerous disks, while writing logs to another, or something like
that?).  Could it be causing optical drives to spin up also?    That
might explain a higher-than-normal load, which would again lead to
power issues.

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