The earthquake resistance kit, Feature Code
1906, provides additional hardware to be installed. The kit stiffens
the rack from flexing and also ties the rack directly to the concrete
floor. The kit can be installed on a raised floor or non-raised floor.
Procedure
- Is the Earthquake Resistance
Kit Feature (FC 1906) to be installed on this storage facility?
- No, go to the next section.
- Yes, go to step 2.
- The earthquake resistance kit, Feature Code 1906, provides
additional hardware to be installed. The kit stiffens the rack from
flexing and also ties the rack directly to the concrete floor. The
kit can be installed on a raised floor or non-raised floor.
- If the rack is new from IBM®, the MES hardware kit
for FC 1906 would be shipped with the rack. New racks from manufacturing will have a
flyer that is similar to one of the following taped to the rack operator
panel under the front cover. See the following examples:
This product manufactured for:
IBM Data Storage Systems Ltd.
Deakvari fasor 16-18
H-2600 Vac
Hungary
Machine S/N xxxxx
Ucode bundle installed on this
machine is:
xxxxxxx
PN 17P8868
|
Assembled in the U.S.A. of
U.S. and non-U.S. components.
By IBM Corporation,
San Jose, California
Machine S/N xxxxx
Ucode bundle installed on this
machine is:
xxxxxxx
PN 17P8927
|
- If the rack has been discontinued from another account,
and the earthquake resistance kit was originally installed there,
the kit would have been removed and shipped separately. The original
kit included parts to tie-down the rack to a non-raised floor, a low
raised floor, and a high raised floor. Parts not used at the original
installation may not have been kept and shipped. If you are installing
on a different floor type than the original floor type, you may not
have all the necessary parts. Call the next level of support.
- Go to the hardcopy MES instructions for the Earthquake
Resistance Kit, feature code 1906, then return here and go to the
next step.
Note: The latest version of the MES instructions
are included with the hardware kit ordered from IBM. You may also
consult your next level of support for this storage model.
- Go to the next section.