Subject: Re: sourece for DS10 PS replacement?
To: Graham Allan <allan@physics.umn.edu>
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/10/2003 19:19:08
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:27:52AM -0500, Graham Allan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 09:07:24AM +0200, Mark Ter Morshuizen wrote:
> > Hi Bob,
> > 
> > On Thursday 10 April 2003 02:19 am, you wrote:
> > > The IBM drives are larger storage, same physical, but higher current
> > > draw.  This is why I suspect power supply.
> > 
> > In my experiance DEC over-engineered it's power supplies tremendously.
> > First they spec'ed the machines to use overrated power supplies, then they 
> > over built the oversize power supplies. I would consider it unlikely that 
> > your PS is the problem.
> 
> They certainly didn't overengineer the PSU in the DS10! We have 6 or so
> DS10's, of which 3 have had their PSUs replaced already,. and (as it
> happens) I'm waiting for HP service to come and replace another today.

The DS10 PSU is an OEM-ed PSU ;)

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