Re: Magstar 3570 gone mad

At 08:55 AM 04/24/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>During the last week, my 3570 has been throwing a fit on a regular basis.
>The loader keeps careering into the sides, it tries to load tapes when it
>already has one in the loader, and its just made me do a forced power off in
>the middle of a full system save.
>This has all happened since upgrading to V4R4 last weekend.
>
>I'm wondering if the microcode has become corrupt somehow by the install ?
>How can i re-install it?
>I'm current on PTF's; i'm on the latest cum available in the UK, although i
>believe that a new one has just been issued stateside, HIPERs as of three
>weeks ago (current ones on order).  Microcode level is EC=C70654,
>LINK=D115_424.

There are group PTFs for Save/Restore, and they do apply to 35n0 models of 
the system (among many other things.)

Al




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