Re: Power off and on tasks

["colin williams" <colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg,

I thought regular power-offs were not recommend as they were not too healthy
for the disks. They used to blow the disks occaisionally.
anyone know if thats still the case.

cheers
Colin.W
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Wenzloff" <GWenzloff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 8:22 PM
Subject: Power off and on tasks


> We use the power off and on tasks to shut down and restart the AS/400 each
> weekend primarily to recover if there is a media error on the weekly
backup.
> It is undesirable to have everyone come to work Monday morning and find
that
> the machine has a message to be answered.
>
> Three weeks ago the FE replaced the batteries in our disk controllers and
> since then the machine has not powered off/on.
>
> Does anyone have an idea of what I should check for?  The power off/on
> schedule shows the correct dates/time.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
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