Re: Whooda belived this?

Don't know how relevant this is, but our only--ONLY--surprise system-down
outage, here since Nov. 1995 was when a power-backup electrician doing
maintenance threw a switch to put the 400 on straight power grid, and
everything went down, he said because it was wired wrong. Then I remembered
how the previous guy insisted on us bringing the system down first,
precisely because sometimes it is.

Score: Human cause-1; AS400 cause-0.

Now take our W-98 history...please...take it...away...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Shepherd" <tims009@hotmail.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 3:49 AM
Subject: Re: Whooda belived this?


> I'd also check your power supply, i.e. the source. We had a machine on a
UPS
> and had three crashes in 5 days. They were 9332 drives, which crashed if
you
> sneezed in the next office. They were over 5 years old and initially we
just
> put it down to wear and tear. It turned out that the cause was the local
> electricity distribution for the area had a "floating earth" which was
> spiking the disks through the earth. It only became apparent as another
> AS400 customer down the road was having the same problem. We installed a
> separate earth from the rest of the building and had no other problems
> since.
>
> Tim Shepherd
>