S/390 taperobot rejects tapes

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Just in: S/390 taperobot rejects tapes which halted the system. Solutions are in the making

-- hzlz (mph@netbox.org), January 03, 2000

Answers

It was the downfull of known Civilisation when perfectly good tape apes were replaced with those damnable "silos"...

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), January 03, 2000.

Pardon my ignorance. What is a taperobot?

-- Lisa (lisadawn@yahoo.com), January 03, 2000.

A robot which changes tapes (you've probably seen it in films, big machines)

-- hzlz (mph@netbox.org), January 03, 2000.

The real downfall of humanity was when someone decided to extend the life of these mainframes instead of replacing them with some decent technology. Still using tapes for I/O in this day in age (and waiting for them to load silo or not) is just plain idiotic.

-- Anti-Mainframe (mainframeonthebrain@craphardware.com), January 03, 2000.

Are there StorageTek Silo's? I suspect so, since they were in a couple of films. What was the problem? The Silo or the MVS system? Please explain.

STK

-- Al Russell (russell545@AOL.com), January 03, 2000.



Please clarify if this is a Y2K related problem or just something broke.

-- Al Russell (russell545@aol.com), January 03, 2000.

y2k pro has a new job...

he's a trainee tape-ape working in a silo! har!

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), January 03, 2000.


The two films are Easier and Clear and Present Danger. The Silo is called a PowderHorn. It can have up to 6,000 tapes. It uses STK HSC software on the MVS system. SO, my question still remains. Is this Y2K related or JUST broke? Give me the STK Incident number and I will find out for myself.

-- Al (russell545@aol.com), January 03, 2000.

The post came from my website Y2k.nl and was posted from a big Dutch datacenter. I reposted it here to see what would come up. I will research more to give you an answer ...

-- hzlz (mph@netbox.org), January 03, 2000.

You will have to translate this site for me....... I am StorageTek and I will respond. A country and account name will be enought. We can search databases to find out what is going on........ This customer is a large one, anyone that can afford these silo's is, i.e. AT&T, BELL South, US West...... etc... These SILO's (PowderHorn's) run 1 Mil Plus US$

My Educational guess is; This customer backup databases before the end of the year and is trying now to restore some data. I suspect it is the STK HSC software or TMS (Tape Management System) running on the MVS system. I have seen this with our software on UNIX systems. It required a patch. Not sure, but I do not think this is hardware. JUST A GUESS,,,,,,,,, Please confirm customer if you can, since this was third hand info. Thanks.... STK

Thanks

-- STK (russell545@aol.com), January 03, 2000.



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