[c-nsp] Redundant Power Supplies (was: Cisco 7206VXR)

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:23:30PM +0100, Howard Jones wrote:
> We have a stack of 3750Gs with a redundant power supply 
> unit. When a power supply fails (or it's power feed fails), it correctly 
> flips to the RPS. Now at this stage, even when power is restored, there 
> doesn't seem to be a way to flip *back* to the mains power without 
> pulling the plug on the RPS *and* the device that has flipped. 
> 
> Am I dreaming?

No, the design team at Cisco that build this has been smoking.  Bad weed, 
that is.

Even Dell can get this right...

(With the 3750E series, they have figured out that people prefer redundant
PSUs to actually *be*, but these seem to be a bit overengineered, read
"expen$ive").

gert

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