× The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.


  • Subject: Re: Disk failure
  • From: Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:25:24 -0500

All ours start with 68 also...

Neil Palmer wrote:

> The Principality of Schizophrenia ?
>
> VERY interesting isn't it.
> I'd report it to IBM as a bug in diagnostics.
>
> ...Neil
>
> thomas@inorbit.com
> Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> 2001/07/11 00:52
> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L
>
>
>         To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: Disk failure
>
> On Tue, 10 July 2001, Neil Palmer wrote:
>
> > PS - Anyone have a list of the country codes IBM uses to identify where
> > hardware was manufactured ?
> > For example, 10 is the US,  I believe 44 is Italy, and 78 Mexico. (These
>
> > are the common prefixes for AS/400/iSeries serial numbers).
> > From looking at a couple of 170's we have I see 6717 drives with
> prefixes
> > of 68, 75 & 33.
> > Al was speculating that the defective drives (if it is the drives) were
> > from Singapore.  Anyone know if one of these 3 prefixes is for Singapore
> ?
>
> Heh. Interesting numbers.
>
> We had a drive fail on a 270 three weeks ago. Here's relevant info from
> the final two related entries in the product activity log. First at
> 15:58:55 indicating "Data protection lost" showed:
>
>                       Serial                  Resource
> Type      Model       Number                  Name
> 6713      070         33-0D10365              DD006
>
> The next at 15:58:56 indicating "Permanent: Addressed device failed to
> respond to selection" showed:
>
>                       Serial                  Resource
> Type      Model       Number                  Name
> 6713      070         68-0D10365              DD006
>
> Wonder what country that drive came from?
>
> Tom Liotta
>
> --
> Tom Liotta
> The PowerTech Group, Inc.
> 19426 68th Avenue South
> Kent, WA 98032
> Phone  253-872-7788
> Fax  253-872-7904
> http://www.400Security.com
>
> ___________________________________________________
> The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe
>  Better!  Faster! More Powerful!
>  250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now!
>  http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/
>
> +---
> | 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
> +---

+---
| 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
+---

As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

This thread ...

Replies:

Follow On AppleNews
Return to Archive home page | Return to MIDRANGE.COM home page

This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact [javascript protected email address].

Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.