Re: Bizarre Abnormal System End

This is very interesting.  We had a V3R2M0 machine reipl
itself about 3 weeks ago.  I never did find out why it did it,
but the CD drive was empty, now that I think about it.

Our V3R7M0 machine always has a CD rom in the drive,
the blue book manual, and it has never done this.

This is... intriging.  Sounds like a Windows type of problem,
not something you would find on the AS/400.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Chuck Lewis wrote:

> That is INCREDIBLE Booth :-)
>
> Sounds like someone would almost have to PROGRAM something that dumb <BG>
>
> Let's see:
>
> PGM
>
> CHKCDDRV
> something loaded=yes
> SYSRUNOK
> ELSE
> MESSUPSYS
> ENDPGM
>
> ;-)
>
> Chuck
>
> boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:
>
> > Dean, we had behavior similar to this on a box delivered in October 1998.
> > In the end we were instructed to keep a CD in the CD-ROM drawer until a
> > fix was established.  I understood that problem to be the AS/400 was
> > constantly checking the CD-ROM drawer to see if there was a CD, and if
> > there was no CD there would be  memory leak, causing a really ungraceful
> > collapse.
> >
> > I can't believe these are the same problem, but that was our experience.

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