Re: Fire Extinquisher for the Computer Room

MJ,

In a message dated 97-09-03 08:23:40 EDT, you write:

<<snip>>
> 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.

That's odd, I knew that Halon 1301 was being phased out but thought that a
replacement (1309?) was available.  CO2 GAS in high enough concentrations
should work, but I share your concerns about the other states...

>  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?

Yep, but they're pricey$!  I've found that an informal arrangement with a
local (non-competitor, of course) company using a /400 can be quite
equitable, IF you have the manual procedures in place so that only critical
applications absolutely HAVE to be run on the computer.

JMHO,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
(Between Raleigh and Research Triangle Park)
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM

"The saints are the sinners who keep on trying." -- Robert Louis Stephenson
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