Re: DASD failure

["Jeffrey M. Silberberg" <silbrbrg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 Denis, 

        More info please.

        5 Failures across 40 machines that average x years old running y 
number of hours per day with n number of disk assemblies, or 5 failures on a 
new system with the (6) 8Gig drives running 8 hours per day ???? 

        JMS

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Denis Robitaille wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Our company has about 40 AS/400 in north america. The machines are betwen 1 
>and 4 years old. In the last 6 months, we had to replace 5 disk due to failure 
>(crashed). To me this number of crash seems High but IBM told us this was 
>noting out of the ordinary.
> 
> I dont have the number but i tought that the mean time between failure of the 
>AS/400 was much greater.
> 
> What do you think? 
> 
> Denis Robitaille
> Cascades inc.
> Tel: 819-363-5187
> DRobitaille@cascades.com
> 
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