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

["Bale, Dan" <DBale@xxxxxxxx>]

Hey, that was the trick we used to do with an old IBM PS/2 luggable (at
least 25 pounds!).  Well, we didn't "throw" them, but it was a 2-foot
free-fall to the floor.  Loved watching clients' reactions to that!

- Dan Bale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shaw, David [SMTP:dshaw@spartan.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 10:19 AM
> To:   'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: Running AS/400 with cover off and care of Drives
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Crosby [mailto:jlcrosby@fwi.com]
> > 
> > Douglas Handy wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > ROTFL!  I assume this is documented in the IBM manuals as the 
> > preferred
> > procedure? <g>
> 
> I dunno about documents, but all the CE's know it.  If the tapping at
> power
> up doesn't work, the next step is to physically pull out the drive and tap
> it on a hard surface, such as a concrete floor.  Our CE told us that he's
> actually THROWN stuck drives at the floor to break them loose - the
> surprising thing isn't that it broke them loose, but that nothing else
> broke
> in them!
> 
> Dave Shaw
> Spartan International, Inc.
> Spartanburg, SC
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