RE: Running AS/400 with cover off and care of Drives

["Shaw, David" <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Crosby [mailto:jlcrosby@fwi.com]
> 
> Douglas Handy wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> ROTFL!  I assume this is documented in the IBM manuals as the 
> preferred
> procedure? <g>

I dunno about documents, but all the CE's know it.  If the tapping at power
up doesn't work, the next step is to physically pull out the drive and tap
it on a hard surface, such as a concrete floor.  Our CE told us that he's
actually THROWN stuck drives at the floor to break them loose - the
surprising thing isn't that it broke them loose, but that nothing else broke
in them!

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC
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