Re: Tape backup solutions

[Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well if you remember WAY BACK in the days of the FIRST AS/400's IBM was 
bragging (at least
to all of us S/38 customers) that the new AS/400 had all of the cable 
"self-contained" in
racks... Of course all of the comm cables for local controllers and remote 
stuff were
external. The brilliant thinking back then was we could save money if we 
skipped the false
floor...

We have an absolutely INCREDIBLE maintenance department and Dan, Dan "the can 
do anything"
Man actually made us some "frames" that are similiar to the false floor 
sections with
plywood inserts. The original AS/400 was positioned along the back wall of the 
computer room
and these "frames" were between the wall and the white boxes. Covered up all 
the cable, were
at the right hight so that the doors could swing open and allowed you to walk 
around "back
there" without stepping all over the various cables. He ALSO came up with the 
brilliant idea
of running all of our local workstation controllers (6) up into the ceiling, 
enclosed in a
"metal box" up the wall (a standard "thing" that I am sure has an actual 
name...) so that
all of the twin-ax was up in the celing and not cascading down the walls of the 
computer
room...

Terry Herrin wrote:

> Chuck Lewis wrote:
> >GREAT ! They are about 15 feet apart BUT basically opposite each other and 
>NO, no false
> >floor, so cable would have to be run around the bacl of the 530, behind the 
>mux, the
> >ups and the battery rack that are at the end of the room and then to the 500 
>(isn't
>
> No false floor?  Ouch.  We'd be overrun with cable if we didn't have a
> raised floor in our data center.  Then again, we have a lot of other
> machines besides the two AS/400's.  I just tend to ignore them.
> <grin>
>
> Terry Herrin
> Sr. Programmer/Analyst
> New Hanover Regional Medical Center
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