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We bought a 4-to-1 DB9 (serial) switchbox - 2 of the ports are connected each with an iSeries OpsConsole direct cable, another to a DSL modem, and another to our phone system. The one is to a Win 2K server. I could see something like this working for you, assuming you have 4 Ops Console cables - or maybe you could use the one you have between the laptop and switchbox, then normal serial cables (cheap enough) from the switchbox to the partitions. The only pins that would be active are those that correspond to active ones on the Ops Console cable - unless IBM checks for pinouts at the iSeries.

Saves on connectors, for sure. The box was less than $30 US, as I recall.

Regards

Vern

At 12:01 PM 9/24/2003 +1000, you wrote:
Jeffry,

We've had a similar experience, except we were using one laptop and cable
to switch between four partitions on an 825 (because the account manager
forgot to order all the equipment and we had to make do with an old laptop
borrowed from our PC support guys).

I used to be in the "Twinax will always work, why mess with it?" school of
thought, but I have to say I think I've become a convert to Ops Console.
Now we're trying to decide whether to go the whole hog with LAN console or
not. We'll see........

Thanks

Adam Driver
Technical Consultant
Kaz Technology Services
Level 7
66 Wentworth Ave
Sydney NSW 2010
Australia
Phone: +61 2 9844 0386
Fax: +61 2 9844 0333



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