Re: Running AS/400 with cover off and care of Drives

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Douglas/David, et al,

<Even simpler to try first:  physically tap on the drive as it is being powered
up (which on the 400 is not immediately after hitting the load button).   I have
successfully used this in the past to coerce a drive to start spinning -- and
then it seems to be fine until cooled off again.>

I spent WAY to much time seeing this done. We had a TON of these drives and they
eventually got replaced by IBM because they were within a SPECIFIC serial number
range. This was almost 3 years ago...

Nothing like that "chirping" sound they make when they go through that "try to
start/fail, tray again/fail" routing they do. I have seen IBM take a long
screwdriver and a rubber mallet and tap while this is going on a bring drives
back to life long enough to be replaced. NOT a lot of run... That goodness for
mirroring and RAID 5 !

Chuck

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