RE: Problems with AS/400 250

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Keith.

I will do that. There is only one drive so that shouldn't be too hard to do
:-)

And unfortunately (?) and I WELL versed in hearing that "whirring/click"
sound of AS/400's drives trying to start. And the "long screwdriver, rubber
mallet/tap, tap, tap as one is trying to start to get it going again (this
done by IBM CE's) a LONG time ago on 9227's I think there were (?) We had
RACKS of them and they had a big problems and eventually all got replaced...

Thanks again !

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Keith Carpenter
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 8:27 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Problems with AS/400 250


If you pull the cover off the 250, you should be able to hear the drives 
spin up at the system's initial power up IPL.  Each disk is powered up 
sequentially.  The drives I've seen with stiction problems (IBM, but 
non-400) would make several attempts to spin up before failing.  If you 
can get close enough to the drive, you may be able to hear it trying to 
start up.

If you want to use your spare 620 drives, you should check if the 
specific DASD model(s) are compatible with the 250 (they probably are). 
  If they are of a smaller capacity, you might also need to add more of 
them to have enough space to load your savsys (ie. 4x4Gb could replace 
2x8Gb)


Keith