Re: Fire Extinquisher for the Computer Room

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 05:19 AM 9/3/97, you wrote:
>Hope there's an answer for this.
>
>Our Halon fire extinquisher from the computer room went to be recharged
and never came 
>back.  I talked to maintenence yesterday and they say halon is now illegal
and the 
>extinquisher could not be recharged.  They brought us up a CO2 one for
now.  I also was 
>told the old overhead sprinkler that I thought was disconnected was not.
>
>I feel there must be some replacment for halon.  What should we be using
now halon is not 
>available?  I am having horrors of a small fire in the computer room and
the AS400 being 
>turned into a piece of junk from CO2 or water just as surely as if it was
burned up.  What 
>type of extinquisher should we be using?  I don't trust our maintenence
department to come 
>up with the correct answer.
>
>This also made me think of disaster recovery (I know, I should have been
thinking of it 
>before).  Do any of you have contracts with a company that will provide an
alternate site 
>if a disaster happens to your AS400.  Or will bring one to your site?
What companies can I 
>check into?
>
It strikes me that this Halon stuff is like a religious arguement.  The
answer depends on who you ask.

At any rate, I had a customer with an AS/400 (D or E or F??) 70 that
recently had a flood (caused by a fire).  The CPU was under water up to the
keylock for several hours.  We let it dry out (with some strategic help
from a hairdrier), ev erything worked properly.

Al



Al Barsa, Jr. - Account for Midrange-L
Barsa Consulting, LLC.  
400 > 390

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