Heh. You're talking to the kid who got belted for taking apart all the
radios, televisions, and other eletrical goods in the house when I was five.
Many of the SCSI select cables are keyed. Some of them are not. I meet
both kinds of service people, those who got into it because they love
computers and are interested in how they work, and everybody else.
I think I fall in to the first category, or at least I hope I do.
CALL -151
mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Teo Zenios" <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: IBM Engineers
> Its the same for every tech profession, nobody wants to get their hands
> dirty learning the basics. Everything it taught by computer simulations
> where the user has no clue what is really going on at the basic level
> anymore. The techs you are referring to probably know everything about how
a
> raid is supposed to work inside and out, they just don't know plugging a
> cable in backwards causes problems because they don't do it enough or
> usually get it correct on the first guess. I would imagine that its more
> cost effective to have inexpensive techs who can just swap parts when
there
> is a problem then to have 100's of better paid knowledgeable engineers who
> actually know what they are doing go out and take time troubleshooting a
> problem.
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