Re: install DASD a C.E.-only job?

It would seem that EMC should install it for you.

"Bale, Dan" wrote:

> Not that we have in our "spares" cabinet.  Since we really have not
> been impacted with any speed performance issues, there's really no
> need to go with anything faster at this point.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan Bale
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
> D.Bale@Handleman.com
>   Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
>   (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
>
>      -----Original Message-----
>      From:   Glenn Ericson [SMTP:Glenn-Ericson@att.net]
>      Sent:   Friday, August 03, 2001 3:51 PM
>      To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>      Subject:        Re: install DASD a C.E.-only job?
>
>      Dan is there any other card the  EMC  DASD will attach through?
>      That 6501 is Slow. It likely is not allowing  your 3590 to run
>      at  your
>      400 bus speed  which is likely  slower then 3590 as well.
>
>      At 06:46 PM 08/02/2001 -0400, Bale, Dan wrote:
>           Is it within the realm of possibility for me to install DASD
>           and a 6501
>           card and get the AS/400 (9406, model 510, V3R7) to actually
>           use it?  The
>           EMC DASD subsystem was actually installed into the expansion
>           box (but
>           was never connected to the system) over a year ago, but we
>           made a bad
>           assumption that we could attach it to another 6501 card
>           which already
>           had the 3590 tape subsystem attached.  Now that we've got a
>           spare 6501
>           card, and we're getting a little tight on disk space, we're
>           itching to
>           get this installed.
>
>           Or is this C.E.-only territory?  IBM wants $200 per hour to
>           do this,
>           which we would easily shell out for, but if this is a
>           relatively simple
>           install without an *easy* opportunity to hose the system,
>           then I'd like
>           to give it a go myself.
>
>           Dan Bale
>           IT - AS/400
>           Handleman Company
>           248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
>           D.Bale@Handleman.com
>             Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
>             (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
>

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