In a message dated 6/2/2005 9:10:30 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't have failure figures at my fingertips, but yes, I would consider mainframe tape drives reliable enough to be considered an "enterprise class product". In addition, the swap feature generally allows for graceful recovery from a rare failure. >> If it's mechanical it will break! We lose about a tape head a year in the 3590/A60. Worst problem ever was hard drive crash in the tape specialist support PC. It is mirrored, but took about 32 hours to get another one and another full day to run all the restore utilities to get everything back in sync. There's also a bad problem in the power sequencing box in that it leaves itself in limbo until it's completely powered down and the internal relays are flipped. Found that out before hooking to UPS and the crack UPS team left it hover mode..... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
