Our CE used to smoke his pipe while working on our 2314s and on our 3330's. Never had a problem!
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:58 AM, John Eells <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK, so this was a long time ago, but when I worked on 2314s none of the > paint was tacky, either inside or outside the box. (Some of it got oily > from hydraulic fluid leaks from time to time, but that's different. ;-) > > From my ex-CE's point of view, anything that might hold dirt or dust inside > a disk drawer is bad. Once the air starts to move some will eventually work > free, and if it should find its way into the disk pack/head interface Bad > Things will follow. You really want the airflow through the drawer to have > cleaned out the junk *before* the heads load to the home position and the > device becomes Ready, and for that you need smooth, dry, non-tacky surfaces. > > -- > John Eells > z/OS Technical Marketing > IBM Poughkeepsie > [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Guy Gardoit z/OS Systems Programming ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
