Re: Happy Birthday !

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@xxxxxxx>]

Steven,

> Also, there is a fix for the inner covers on the 620s and S20s
> that cover the port cables. Our CE removed the power interlocks
> from the covers, plugged them into their sockets and pitched out
> the cable covers as part of the initial machine set up.

  Actually IBM has discontinued those interlocks.  They were required
because the units were initially designated as customer setup.  Any
customer setup machine with more than 500 Watts of total power supply is
required to have interlocks preventing the attaching and removal of any
cables while power is applied.  By removing the customer setup
designation the interlocks can be removed. 

  I gave IBM a verbal schelacking at Sound Off at spring COMMON, and was
informed within 24 hours of the decision to remove the interlocks.  See
- Your opinions do count! (Well OK, it was not my doing alone.  The
decision had already been made.)

  There is a field fix that will be rolled out to those systems that
still have the interlocks in place.  (By the way if yours are simply
disconnected from the covers you will want to tape them on, they fit
very loosly.)

  Larry Bolhuis
  Arbor Solutions, Inc
  lbolhui@ibm.net
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