At a former employer, we had problems with IBM non-System i drives
failing. These were purchased from a third party drive supplier, who
purchased these higher performance/higher capacity drives from IBM and
applied their own firmware to the drives. We kept two spares on the shelf
to handle the parity failures. We were running RAID-5, and we never lost
data while I was there, but I believe they did have to reload before I was
there. We got so good at swapping drives, that finally we replaced all of
the drives with drives approved by Rochester for the System i, and we
never had another parity failure.
Steven Morrison
Fidelity Express
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I should point out that many years ago, I interviewed someone for a job
that openly admitted he was counterfeited IBM stuff.
He remarked "I've got their label maker".
Al
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"i" comes before "p", "x" and "z"
e gads
Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor!
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IBM System i guidance on disk drives not manufactured by IBM
IBM has recently observed cases at our IBM System i customers where disk
drives have been procured on the open market and modified to look like IBM
drives. These modifications include false labels that look like IBM labels
and firmware that is similar to ours. However, the disk drives have not
gone through our test processes, don't have the correct firmware, and have
sub-standard carrier hardware. These issues have led to failures in
customer systems. Since these are not IBM parts, they are not covered
under
IBM's Warranty or Maintenance agreements. IBM recommends that you proceed
with caution when procuring disk drives for IBM System i servers from any
source other than IBM or other trusted reputable resellers.
If you do find drives that are counterfeit, we ask that you provide
information to us as we attempt to track the source of the parts.
Please contact Dave Verburg at 507-253-2648 or verburg@xxxxxxxxxx with
this
information.
Al
Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
400>390
"i" comes before "p", "x" and "z"
e gads
Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor!
914-251-1234
914-251-9406 fax
http://www.barsaconsulting.com
http://www.taatool.com
http://www.as400connection.com
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