Tbzero - The Final Fling

Michael Strother writes: |For those of you that think that all tbzero does is mark down chunks |as available you are sorely mistaken and that is exactly the reason |that tbzero does not belong in the public domain. |Enough on this thread...it aint gonna become available and that's |all there is to it... |tbzero was never meant to be fix for DBA or SysAdmin oversights. Whoa there ! What happened to 'the customer is always right' philosophy ? Even if we aren't right all the time, you're not suppoed to tell us that, are you ;-) Okay, the first thing to be said is 'read paragaraph one to see what is wrong' - now, let's see if we can be a bit more constructive here. How about a utility that DOES only mark down chunks as available ?. Maybe a couple of checks to see whether there are more things to worry about than a simple I/O error indicating that you should get your disks checked/switched on, and recommend a dbexport / re-initialise/ dbimport as soon as possible ? More often than not, in mho, the 'oversighted' administrator has had his sight focussed on the disk drive lights, and has more than likely realised that it is not flickering in the manner he/she is accustomed to. Nervously poking the on button, a victory jig is danced, only to arrive at the tbmonitor utility and discover that whatever random combinations of key-presses are performed, that chunk obstinately remains off-line. As far as the danger of such a utility goes - is there anything really more dangerous than tbmonitor's Parameters Initialise utility ? However, I do agree that is is a very dead horse that I have been flogging here, so I shall turn my back and despairingly throw my whip into the suggestions box. Cheers, Richard Ridley