Re: SPARC burn?
Many years ago (2001? Maybe) we stood up a new server room in our offices in France (which acted as a European hub). Lots of Sun boxen and a few PC-type servers.
All was plugged in, configured and working. What we didn't know was the the server room aircon was tied into the building aircon management and shut off during out-of-hours..
We arrived the next morning to find that the server room was doing a good imitation of an oven (50C) and almost everything was shut down. Once the room was cool enough, we managed to get the switches up and then sequentially bought up the Sun boxes. Most came up fairly cleanly - the shutdown had been caused by a thermal warning and, in most cases had happened cleanly.
The PC server boxes and the Sparc storage arrays however were basically toasted. The SSA chassis was OK but the majority of the SCSI drives had so many errors as to be unusable - fortunately, since they had just been provisioned, there was very little data on them and we could just get new drives.
Most of the PC servers had to be replaced.
There was an amount of French-type shouting going on at a senior level afterwards.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
