[rescue] Slightly OT: Bad Cap Saga

Geoffrey S. Mendelson gsm at mendelson.com
Tue Aug 19 02:50:12 CDT 2008


On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:33:55AM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> We called out the FE, and he swapped all the power supplies in the rack
> after that.  The p660?  It merely logged the fault in errpt and kept on
> running.
> 
> I *HEART* IBM pSeries hardware.

That's why IBM sold their PC divison to Lenovo. IBM was just remarketing
them anyway, and why have their reputation (and profits) suffer because
a Chinese subcontractor was making products that were not up to IBM
standards in either quality or markup.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm at mendelson.com  N3OWJ/4X1GM



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