Re: Disk failure

On Tue, 10 July 2001, Neil Palmer wrote:

> PS - Anyone have a list of the country codes IBM uses to identify where 
> hardware was manufactured ?
> For example, 10 is the US,  I believe 44 is Italy, and 78 Mexico. (These 
> are the common prefixes for AS/400/iSeries serial numbers).
> From looking at a couple of 170's we have I see 6717 drives with prefixes 
> of 68, 75 & 33.
> Al was speculating that the defective drives (if it is the drives) were 
> from Singapore.  Anyone know if one of these 3 prefixes is for Singapore ?


Heh. Interesting numbers.

We had a drive fail on a 270 three weeks ago. Here's relevant info from the 
final two related entries in the product activity log. First at 15:58:55 
indicating "Data protection lost" showed:

                      Serial                  Resource
Type      Model       Number                  Name    
6713      070         33-0D10365              DD006

The next at 15:58:56 indicating "Permanent: Addressed device failed to respond 
to selection" showed:

                      Serial                  Resource
Type      Model       Number                  Name    
6713      070         68-0D10365              DD006

Wonder what country that drive came from?

Tom Liotta

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Tom Liotta
The PowerTech Group, Inc.
19426 68th Avenue South
Kent, WA 98032
Phone  253-872-7788
Fax  253-872-7904
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