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I can relate. Just last week I caught the corner of the ISOBAR surge protector that is on the floor and that our 820 is plugged into with the heel of my shoe. Looked down and thought holy smokes, I came so close to hitting the power switch with my foot it's not funny. Of course, I have to get rid of that ISOBAR and at least put in a surge protector with a guarded switch. But I got to thinking - Do I even need a surge protector for the AS/400? You would think that a six figure machine would have some built in protection. Or is more better? -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@iquest.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 2:18 PM To: Midrange-L Subject: OT - One for the (DUH) List... Wow, I'm in the Computer Room and a user that attaches via TCP/IP comes in and says "What's wrong ?" and I said "What do you mean" and checked a terminal that was fine and the panel on the AS/400 which was fine... The phones start ringing off the hook. I sign on and see: Line ETHERNET01 failed. Automatic recovery started. and * Ethernet line ETHERNET01 failed on resource LIN09 and I thinking WHAT the heck happened. And ALL 9 remote sites and every non-terminal user in this building have failed... I go over to the equipment rack and see that the TSU/DSU/CSU and routers have no power ! I start looking around (and I inherited this mess mind you) and an AC Adapter "brick" had fallen off of the rack and landed on a power strip, down on the floor and hit its' off button ! Turned the power strip back on. Ending TCP and restarting it got everyone rolling again. What fun - not. And of course I have had a "personal project" for over 3 months to get rack mounted power units to REPLACE these stinking power strips that my predecessor was so fond of (there are about 5 of them all attached to one of 2 UPS's). And of course everything else kept getting in the way. Well guess what I am ordering NOW ? ! Everyone (that celebrates it) have a Happy Thanksgiving ! Chuck _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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