RE: Disaster Recovery, IPLing from SAVSYS tapes

As Sean Porterfield said in his earlier posting, if the B900 indicates the
failing component with its component code in the last four digits, it could
be that 3590 IS the tape drive (or IOP) to which it attaches.  Why the
(E50?) is expecting a 3590 to be attached is, I guess, a historical reason
from a earlier/recent config of the machine.

It is always easy to give advice based on a position one would ideally be
in, and you never are ... but this is what D/R practices are about.  What
you probably need to do if you must rebuild your system onto a different
model is to reload from os400 distribution media, configure the box as if it
were a 'new' machine, make a new Savsys on the d/r machine; in a d/r
scenario you can d-ipl to the customised savsys, reloading the os and
special config, then all you have to do is restore your apps and data.

Unless you do something like the above, my guess is that the E50 and F60 D/R
machines are going to be a regular PITB, not only for this test, but also in
unlucky event that you have to use them in a real d/r scenario.

Do you have the os distribution media for v3r2? Is it on QIC media usable in
TAP01?  Another problem I encountered a few years back was that the savsys
tapes for the d/r were saved from our production machine onto a QIC1000
drive, the d/r test machine only had a QIC525.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Ward, Dennis [mailto:Dennis.Ward@AIG.com]
Sent: 04 October 2002 15:10
To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Disaster Recovery, IPLing from SAVSYS tapes


no the machine has a 3490 tape drive

but will look up 3590

but when I used DST on startup nothing is failing

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Porterfield [mailto:sporter@bestdist.com]
Sent: 04 October 2002 14:58
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Disaster Recovery, IPLing from SAVSYS tapes


>on the E50
>
>after signon as qsecofr then setting date etc
>
>I get b900 3590  non of our books have the b900 range in any ideas ?


I don't have a manual specific to that model, but in the 720 manual it says
that B900 is a permanent IO processor failure.  Is it a 3590 tape drive?
Seems that the last 4 digits on an SRC are the part number that is failing.

HTH

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