The field engineer took care of the fire and smoke. Turns out they parked the heads on the drive to move the equipment but didn?t take the breaks back off when they ipl'd. I recommended a thermal detection mechanism but the suggestion was turned down because they had too few of the older drives in the field and no longer were using a break mechanism.
Recovered significant portions of the data from a seven year old back up of the system using a down level release of DDR. Paul Hanrahan -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SArnett Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3705 ...and.... Paul Hanrahan wrote: >I had a guy call me when I was working the VM queue and tell me his >DASD was on fire. I asked him if he'd called me or the fire department >first. - Paul Hanrahan > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
