Re: 250 failure

[Keith Carpenter <carpcon@xxxxxxx>]

I think Justin is right about the disk being scratched (cleared). Your 
system is simply insistent on booting from tape/CD.

You might try testing the tape drive in another system first. Maybe you 
cann borrow one to test in your box.  My money is on the tape drive not 
being the problem.  Your system needs boot media.


Keith



Chuck Lewis wrote:
> Thanks for that information Pat. And no, what manual ?
>
> And do you think getting a new/used tape drive would do the trick or, as
> Justin mentioned, something else at work here ?
>
> Thanks !
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pat Barber
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 2:26 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: 250 failure
>
> I don't believe the 250 came with ANY tapes or cdroms
> other than test media. The 250 was a "special" machine
> in that it was only marketed by BP's as a shrink wrap
> solution. It came preloaded and you pretty much got what
> you are seeing. It was the users little red wagon to create
> tapes.
>
> That box started with V4R5, so any set of CDROMS with that
> OS should be able to IPL up on D. You could reload from any
> set of V4R5 and get IBM to give you passwords.
>
> Did you download the manual with all the hardware paths ???