AW: 6718 Drive failures. -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: AW: 6718 Drive failures.
From: oliver.wenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:19:48 +0200
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Hello,

>Has anyone else has a lot of 6718 drives fail?

we have 20 6718 drives. Last year, about this time, in 4 month, 12 of them
failed with an error of 6718FFFx.
This included a mirrored pair on August 6 => scratch install, 2 days outage.

Finally, IBM replaced all of our 20 drives in September.

There was a DASD ptf, look out for it. I would talk with IBM if you have the
old, affected drives.

Good luck,

Oliver

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