Re: AS/400 heritage

[jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Ditto that story Bob.   I had the exact same experience.

I also had the experience a few weeks ago of my PC hardrive grinding to a
halt and I lost the drive and contents.   Warning?  are you kidding?  The
high price of a cheap solution.

John Carr

----------------------------
Who called IBM?
One afternoon, the phone rang. It was an IBM Customer Engineer. He inquired
as to
when would be a good time to replace our failed disk drive. "What disk
drive?", I
replied. We had no reports from the user community of any problems. Our
AS/400
had had a drive failure, detected the failure, and called IBM service. The
Customer Engineer was dispatched before we even were aware of the problem.
RAID
protection, free with the AS/400, had prevented the system from crashing.
Service
Director, free with our service contract, had reported the problem.

The CE arrived on site, installed the drive without interuptting
operations, and
an hour later the RAID protection was restored. What other system can do
that,
other than the new iSeries?
.................

+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---