Hello Angus.

20 Aug 04 11:50, you wrote to Takumi:

 AM>   Re: To RAID or not to RAID?
 AM>   By: Takumi to Angus Mcleod on Fri Aug 20 2004 01:26:00

 >>  > Magnetic media here suffers from the environment.
 >>
 >> I've never heard of anything like that.

 AM> Never heard of fungus getting on your media?  Lucky you.

 AM> You also get a build-up of fungus/mold on the gold contacts on your
 AM> RJ11 telephone patch-cords,

it's actually corosion.

 AM>  introducing line noise and eventually
 AM> making the line unuseable.  I don't know why, but I've never seen
 AM> this on RJ45's.

I thiink it could be something to do with the voltage there over long periods.

LANS use a lower voltage, it's AC and zero when the LAN is idle, phones are
at 48V DC when idle.

have you had the same problems with phones attached to RJ45 networks?

Jasen

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