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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:19:25 AST
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- From: BDK@UNB.CA
- Subject: Re: 7171 failure rates
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue,
- 5 Jan 1993 14:51:03 PST from <SROKA@SJSUVM1.SJSU.EDU>
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- We have eight 7171s for the past 6 years or so and in that time
- had very few failures. We never have had a power supply failure
- and have had only a couple of adapter card failures. One of the
- 7171s was bought for spare parts about 3 years ago and we took
- them off maintenance, since they are easy to fix. We have not
- had to touch the spare unit for parts. They are extremely reliable,
- so I would look at other possible causes of the failure.
-
- Have the failures all been on the same machine?
-
- Brian Kaye
- University of New Brunswick
-