On 1 Aug 2007 23:33:41 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Clark, > >Could this really be a true story? The few boxes that attach to mainframes >would have triggered a SIM the moment someone unlatched and pulled the drive >- a highlighted, non-scrolling error message on the console.
The drives were stolen in February of 2003 from ISM, an IBM subsidiary and the implication was that at least some of them were mainframe related. This story http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2003/02/03/ism_030203.html from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation didn't have those implications but other stories at the time did. For example, while the subsequent links don't work this gives more of the flavor http://www.priva-c.com/privacyhorizon/lessonslearned_ism.asp . I suspect that this was a swapped out drive. Given that more than one company was involved, it looks like it was a drive in some kind of RAID configuration that had parts of logical drives on the physical drive. > >And of course the box would have called home to report the failed drive, and >within an hour or two the CE/FE would have been asking where the missing >drive canister had gone. > >Any computer room worth it's salt would have a log of who had gone in and >out and the culprit would have been nabbed before you could say >rumplestiltskin. > >A box of spares next to a MF perhaps... Sounds like an urban myth to me. > >Ron > >PS That would be a hell of a PC running SSA or FCP HBAs. > >> >> A couple of years ago, disk drives were stolen from an IBM outsourcing >> centre here in Canada. I believe they were from a box attached to a >> mainframe. With the advent of the actual disk drives for a mainframe >> being the same size as those for a PC, it becomes a lot easier. There >> was speculation that the drive(s?) was/were taken for use in a PC. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
