Re: 170 v4r3 shutdown on 31st?

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Good old "stiction"... Never FORGET doing the tapping deal on 9337's. BOY I 
don't
miss those things...

Chuck

Douglas Handy wrote:

> Al,
>
> >Have you considered the issue that disk drives that are *NEVER turned off
> >sometimes don't restart.  What happens when several thousand customers call
> >for IBM hardware support (you know, all those guys/gals that they have been
> >incenting to leave recently) to find out that *NO_ONE is available on New
> >Years Day.
>
> And just in case somebody ignores that (good) advice and has this bite
> them anyway, the drives can sometimes be coerced to restart by gently
> tapping on them as they are being started.
>
> One 6606 drive I had bought via eBay has this problem.  It won't start
> by itself from a cold start, but will if I tap on it during startup.
> Then it runs fine as long as it stays powered on.  I keep it on a
> shelf to use in case one of my 6606's in my RAID set goes bad.  I'll
> just substitute the bad spare and coerce it to start, then shop for a
> real replacement drive then return that drive to the shelf.
>
> Doug
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