RE: List Spooled File API SLOW (again)

Paul - do you mean you did not slap the drive against the side of your leg the 
way IBM service folk do?

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From: pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx 

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> Stiction is the slang word for what happens to disk drives that get a 
> chance to cool off while the power is down. I had it happen to me a couple 
> months ago. A client with two machines needed to upgrade the memory and 
> disk on their production system. The cache battery was also replaced at 
> the same time. In order to get the covers off the production system, the 
> development system had to be moved out of the computer room. 
> 
> The CE was delayed in his arrival with the battery. By the time he 
> arrived, I had installed the memory and disk, and we were just waiting. He 
> showed up, installed the battery, and fired up the production system. He 
> verified everything was OK and left. When I moved the development system 
> back into the computer room and powered it up, I heard the lovely sound of 
> a disk drive not wanting to spin, and this was after being powered off for 
> only 2 hours. That drive would not spin up no matter what I did. We 
> finally had to get another drive and perform a full reload. 
> 
> Your comment about powering off your machine for a few hours just makes me 
> a little nervous for you, that's all. 
> 
> If you need to preserve reports, check out one of the tools that can 
> convert a report into a PDF and place it into the IFS. Once it's there, 
> you can burn those reports off to a CD. My preference is the RJS Batch 
> Report Server. 
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> Paul Nelson 
> Arbor Solutions, Inc. 
> 708-670-6978 Cell 
> pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx 
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