Re: DASD failure

[therrin@xxxxxxxxx (Terry Herrin)]

Denis Robitaille wrote:
>That makes 6 crash in about 6 month. To answer some of the question 
>asked about our situation, the 3 last crash happened on 2 machines 
>less that 1 year old. The other 3 on machines less than 3 years old. 
>
>If this is considered normal, I will feel oblidge to tell my 
>management that we may need to reconsider our choices of platform. 
>In fact, hardware wise, my PC is proving to be more reliable than >
>the AS/400! (i am not talking OS here).

This is definitely not normal.  We have two AS/400's with almost 100
total drives.  We're a 365/24/7 shop, and in the four years we've been
running we've lost a total of 3 drives.

Terry Herrin
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
Wilmington, NC
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