Re: Thanks-Running AS/400 with cover off and care of Drives

Thanks to all who replied to my questions.
I have just found out that you should always run the AS/400s that use the
rounded rearcovers with them ON--otherwise the machine
wont circulate air as it is designed to do.
I just found that statement of all places in the model200 users guide so I
guess that still applies to the model500 etc

as per Dougs issue re the system password--it is a undocumented
fact that if you want to avoid the system password prompt--always
power the system down before midnight,in that way the system password
counter never moves a notch.
Hence if you look at Ebays site and do a search on AS/400 you see lots of
V3R7s for sale cheap($100-150).
The home powerusers buy a model400 from egghead for say $399
and then the V3R7s from Ebay and keep there systems running
indefinatly by using the above method,
Here is a recent example:
cheers Dave


AS/400 V3R7 CD'S for OS/400
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-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Handy <dhandy@isgroup.net>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, 6 June 2000 02:23
Subject: Re: Running AS/400 with cover off and care of Drives


>David,
>
>>Another question is Harddrive care--my model 500 has 18gig total
>>2 x 6606, 2 x6607, 1x 6713.Are any of these models prone to sticking after
>>long powerdwn periods.
>
>Of these, I believe the 6606's have the most notorious problems with
>"stiction".  But I think that also was limited to drives manufactured
>during a certain period -- and I don't have the details on when that
>period was.
>
>>I only powerup one day a week for aboubt 4 hours at a time
>
>This is not directly related to your question, but as a reminder, if
>you do only use the system occasionally, it is a good idea to use the
>power on/off scheduler to make sure the system gets powered on every
>week or two.  The reason is extended powerdowns can cause the system
>to request a new system password under the assumption the system may
>have been in storage then resold, invalidating a pre-V4 OS license.
>
>Perhaps this is already why you power on once a week.  But if not, I
>do recommend a power schedule to make sure you don't leave it off for
>"too long", although I don't know the definition of "too long".
>
>>stranglely
>>enough he has recovered data for clients by carefuly taking apart and
>>spinning by hand to give a quick start and then transfering the data on to
>>another drive and throwing the damaged one away
>
>Even simpler to try first:  physically tap on the drive as it is being
>powered up (which on the 400 is not immediately after hitting the load
>button).   I have successfully used this in the past to coerce a drive
>to start spinning -- and then it seems to be fine until cooled off
>again.
>
>Doug
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