V5R1 upgrade FYI about HP8000

Just wanted to let everyone know something we ran into.
We went from V4R5 to V5R1, we have HP8000 and HP4000
hooked up via twinax by using a MPI IPDS emulation card;
the card manufacture said we must purchase new cards at $1,200 each.
This is true IF you want AFP to work, otherwise if no AFP printing will
be done you can still use the older styled card (ours where "only" 3 years
old)

This is what we ended up doing:

We had to re-create the devd and outq on another address on that
twinax line, then they worked - PTF's and hardware did nothing, we
only discovered this after getting the new cards, and they too did not
work, so in desperation we tried to create a new device description and
a new outq and discovered that was what we had to do also.

Good luck to those other poor people that have to be the one to do
the upgrade - it is a big, tough, ugly one - give yourself LOTS of time;
and expect some strange issues.


Mark A. Manske
Fleming CSD - Plymouth Division
Sr. Project Lead
Phone      (763) 545-3700 extension 273
Web Site  http://www.minter-weisman.com
E-Mail      mailto:mmanske@minter-weisman.com