Re: Disk upgrade and IOP compatibility -- MIDRANGE-L

To support the older 7200rpm 17.54GB drives (6714) a 170 requires an RPQ 
(Request for Price Quotation) from IBM.  RPQ843978.
The 6714 is supported on the 170 (for migration purposes) but can not be 
ordered for a 170.

Other 17.54GB disk units are feature codes 6818 - or 8818 if ordered as an 
upgrade to the base load source drive (10K rpm version, requires V4R4+) 
& 6824 - or 8824 when ordered as an upgrade to the base load source drive 
(supports integrated hardware disk compression, requires V4R4+).
There are also MANY HIPER PTF's for disk units, including some critical 
ones released only a few weeks ago.

What support or advice has BCC offered ?

...Neil






"William Corbett" <corbett@asresources.com>
Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
2001/04/14 14:57
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HELP!  (please)
Current Config:
AS/400 - 170 - V4R4 - 2291 processor - 384M memory - IOP 675A - 4 x 8.58G
IBM drives (maxed out)

I've installed 4 x 17.xG BCC drives (labeled IBM Ultrastar 18.2) 6818, 
come
up in config as 6714

The IOP doesn't seem to like the drives.
They add to ASP ok, come up ok, but, the CD and the tape drive (IBM 8mm, 
7G)
are running continuously, without even a cd or tape in.  This eats up
resources so bad (without much CPU% showing in wrkactjob) that I'm getting 
a
1-minute to 5-minute response time on an enter key.  (twinax console)  Of
course, I can't get a telnet session into the box with no resources, times
out before connecting.  I tried to vary them off, but they won't stop.

I've reinstalled the LIC 3 times, thinking that I damaged something, no
help.
When I try to reload from scratch, using a save-21 tape, I eventually get 
a
hardware error - item 59H6613 failed.

Right now, I've reinstalled my original 8.58 drives and am reloading from
the Save 21 tape.  So far, so good.  I removed and added the new drives 
one
at a time, in an effort to not trust my backup tapes...this of course
screwed up my data on the drives.  When I do this again, I'll pull them 
all
at once, leaving the possibility of just popping them back in, in case of 
a
repeat failure.  (you live and learn)

Anyone know about the 675A or the item 59H6613...will this IOP even 
support
the bigger drives.
PTF?  I'm two cums behind...I ordered the latest for this upgrade, but IBM
sent the wrong CD.

I tried just loading V4R5 (before I grudgingly reinstalled the original
drives), but I get the same error.

I don't have IBM hardware support, just supportline (maybe I'll rethink
this).

Your help is appreciated (a lot).  TIA

AS/Resources, Inc.
William A.(Tony) Corbett
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Developer
http://www.asresources.com
corbett@asresources.com




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