Guys, I started in Computer Operations, we were running on. 370/135 running DOS/VS/POWER and we had removal 2319 disk drives. I heard a notice told my Operations manager and at the same time we had DOS/VS message saying we had a equipment check on that drive, so my boss removed that disk pack and mounted it on another drive..well this went on crashing the heads on 9 drives .....
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD > On Mar 7, 2014, at 10:29 PM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wayne -- did you ever find out where the tape rings came from, and who'd > munged the Write Inhibit switches? > > >> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Wayne Driscoll <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> My two favorite memories are: >> 1 - I got called at 0230 because first the system crashed for no apparent >> reason, then when they went to IPL, it failed to. So I drive into work, go >> to the machine room, and as I am trying to figure out what is going on, I >> notice some tape rings on the floor. So I do some investigation and find >> some more, over by the disk (3350) drive area. So I look a little closer >> and discover that 3 of the drives had the Write Inhibit switch in the wrong >> position. One of them was a local page dataset, cause of the initial crash >> and another was the CSA page pack (which, because we IPL'd with CLPA, was >> the cause of the IPL failure). >> 2 - We had a backup site that had our prior mainframe installed. One time, >> while the machine was powered down, a maintenance person went to the >> machine room, and all the lights were off, so he reaches into the dark room >> and fumbles around looking for the switch, however, unknown to him, the >> halon dump switch was about a foot below the light switch, and guess which >> one his hand hit first? >> ============================================== >> Wayne Driscoll >> OMEGAMON DB2 L3 Support/Development >> wdrisco(at)us(dot)ibm(dot)com >> All opinions are mine, and do not represent >> IBM Corporation. >> ============================================== >> >> IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on >> 03/07/2014 02:50:00 PM: >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
