Re: Tape unit take down the system?

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Guessing, sounds like you need the other power cord plugged in to a
different PDU, an hopefully the PDU's are on different power feeds etc.

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Chuck Lewis
<chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi Folks,
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> New Power 7 (well as of late April) and the 3572 Tape Unit. Got a call
> at 6:15 this morning from a branch no one could access the system. I
> tried from home and same thing. Get into work and the Power 7 is down.
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> Powered it back up and it eventually came back up - except for the tape
> unit; no power. Started looking into what happened and at 20 after
> midnight during backups is when it dropped.
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> So as near as I can tell something happened with the tape unit and it
> caused a power surge in the PDU and knocked the Power 7 down. AC light
> on the PDU port where the tape unit power cord plugs in is green. Tape
> unit will not power up no matter what I do (pulling the cord, etc.).
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> So does that sound plausible as to what could have happened?
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> The Power 7 has two power cords but only one is plugged in at this time.
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> Thanks!
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> Chuck
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