Re: Unit XX With Device Parity Protection not operational?

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 08:45 AM 2/19/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello:
>
>This morning, our AS/400 popped up a series of messages that looked like
>this:
>
>Unit 25 with device parity protection not fully operational.
>
>This message was repeated for units 25, 26, 27 and 28.  Afterwards, another
>message popped up that stated:
>
>Units with device parity protection fully operational.
>
>Does anyone have any idea what the "units" are?  Are they disk drives?  It
>has me a little worried since our UPS failed and we have been without one
>for several weeks, now.  We are still waiting for a new one.  We are using
>an S30 model running V4R2.
>
These are disk drives.  Unit 25 (which failed) is apparently in the same
parity set as 26, 27 and 28.  In the event of failure that does not recover
itself, IBM would have to replace the drive, which typically can be dome on
a same day basis.

It just so happened that we had a failure yesterday, on a system with
parity protection (now-a-days, if you don't have protection, you should
have your pulse checked), IBM was called at 12, was here by 1 and had it
fixed before 5.

Al




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