RE: Disk Drives

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxx>]

>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....

Doesn't count, does it?  This requires a service contract.

Dan Bale
SAMSA, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Pat Barber
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 10:15 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Disk Drives


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)