"Simonsen, Larry" wrote:
>
> sounds like the problem many years ago with the disk head wires.

Ahh, yes, the 7933 head wire problem, if I recall correctly.  We
suffered through one failure before proactive replacement of other
heads.

We had a blatant head crash on a 7933 (maybe 7925, been awhile) once.
Field CE found a residue on our media and suggested someone had "spilled
a drink" on the top of the drive and leakage dripped onto the surface
of the disk.  First we don't allow food/drink in the machine room, and
second we had trustworthy operators [at least at the time :-)].  We were
billed for time/materials, media, heads, a sizeable figure.  The boss
protested.  Several weeks later after analysis of the disk, the film
residue on the platter was found to be a lubricant native to the drive
itself.  But as far as I know this was a unique incident.

But let's get back to the PP5 issue.  If this is a matter of simply
identifying the offending patch, then by all means.  PP5 brings many
wonderful things to our eagerly awaiting hands, but if there is a bad
apple in there, we can certainly forgive that, provided you point out
the bad apple :-)

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
Systems/Network Administrator
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga