RE: Sequel to our 40S troubles

["Richard Casey" <casey_r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James,

Don't know if a 40S will take a 6607, but if you do a google search on "6606
disk drive" you can find several places that have drives available.

http://www.perfdata.com/as400disk.html
http://www.wdpi.com/as400_disk2.htm
http://www.canvassystems.com/Used_AS400_Disk_Drives.htm

etc.

Good luck!
Richard


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of James H H Lampert
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 8:47 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Sequel to our 40S troubles


Some weeks ago, as some of you may recall, I was having difficulty with
our 40S refusing to IPL, and giving a mysterious SRC that didn't show up
in any manual. We eventually got it back up, but never did figure out with
any certainty what the problem was.

Now, we have a concrete problem: it's lost a disk drive. Worse: the
missing drive is half the load-source mirrored pair. Fortunately, we
mirror everything.

All of the drives are 6606s. We started out with 8 of them; we're now down
to 5. We've got plenty of spare 6607 drives for our production box, but we
don't have one bloody damned spare 6606 that hasn't gone bad.

1. Will a 40S take a 6607? Can it be physically shoehorned into a drive
bay? Will the system recognize it?

2. Does anybody know where I might find some known-good 6606 drives?

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JHHL