Re: Bizarre Abnormal System End

[Pete Massiello <pmassiello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can I ask how you got a CD on your V3R2 machine?  I didn't think there was such
an option for a CISC based machine.  Did you look at the history log as to why
this "special" V3R2 machine IPLed?

    Curious

        Pete

Jim Langston wrote:

> This is very interesting.  We had a V3R2M0 machine reipl
> itself about 3 weeks ago.  I never did find out why it did it,
> but the CD drive was empty, now that I think about it.
>
> Our V3R7M0 machine always has a CD rom in the drive,
> the blue book manual, and it has never done this.
>
> This is... intriging.  Sounds like a Windows type of problem,
> not something you would find on the AS/400.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
> Chuck Lewis wrote:
>
> > That is INCREDIBLE Booth :-)
> >
> > Sounds like someone would almost have to PROGRAM something that dumb <BG>
> >
> > Let's see:
> >
> > PGM
> >
> > CHKCDDRV
> > something loaded=yes
> > SYSRUNOK
> > ELSE
> > MESSUPSYS
> > ENDPGM
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> > boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:
> >
> > > Dean, we had behavior similar to this on a box delivered in October 1998.
> > > In the end we were instructed to keep a CD in the CD-ROM drawer until a
> > > fix was established.  I understood that problem to be the AS/400 was
> > > constantly checking the CD-ROM drawer to see if there was a CD, and if
> > > there was no CD there would be  memory leak, causing a really ungraceful
> > > collapse.
> > >
> > > I can't believe these are the same problem, but that was our experience.
>
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