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You almost answered your own question, but I'll snip the parts you should focus on: Chris Whisonant wrote: These drives are supported by iSeries and AS/400 disk controllers and I/O processors within the iSeries. I don't believe an Intel machine has ANY of those "extra" processors or a "service processor" that makes sure every single bit written is not on a bad sector/track. I don't believe most Intel machines will call the service department and have the tech show up with a possible failing part without you having to call anybody.... This entire topic has been thrashed to death starting with the S/3 and going forward from there, soooo we ain't covering any "new ground". > Oh, and we all remember the drive fiasco from last Summer/Fall... How many > of you guys got bad disk units? How many dasd units fail on pc's in the "average day" and that never seems to make the news.... "Oops ... I just lost my darn drive on the PC" is probably uttered about 50,000 times "per day" and nobody thinks a thing about that.... Just run down to Walmart and pick up a replacement.... (You have no idea how bad I hate defending IBM, but their hardware deserves it)
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