Similar situation at a former, nameless site. Director had dictated "no fixed disk drives, and no tapes, and BTW, no need to back up the load modules - if we need to get them back, we can recompile them". Head crash on the backup disk drive, operator panics and places good disk on crashed drive. He then went down the line of production drives, placing crashed pack on good drives and then putting the good packs back on the now newly-crashed drives. He managed to kill half our drives before he stopped, including ALL our application load modules. He didn't last very long after that one. We also talked the manager into fixed disks and tape drives after that.
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Can you ID this "mainframe"? > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doc Farmer > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Can you ID this "mainframe"? > > > I don't know if I can ID the "mainframe" but I'm betting the CE for > that site was a special brand of stupid if he let a tape drive sit bad > for four [insert favourite expletive here] years. > > I wonder why the BOFH was allowed to remain employed, though. > Unless the > company was required to hire the retarded... Believe it or not, something like this happened here. All involved are now gone. Not "fired", just "their qualifications no longer meet the current needs of the company" or some such thing. Actually the tape drive did not fail. Just the backup software. The SAN person didn't think it was worth coming in to resolve and restart the backup. Then a HD failed (on a RAID-ed box). About 30 minutes before the CE got in (he was on his way!), another HD in the same array failed. No more array! Rebuild time on Sunday. Monday was a day of blood in that group. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
