Re: Model 200 Help

Matt -

If you determine that it is a hard drive failure, then take out the disk drives, _gently_ slam them down several times on a padded hard surface like a desk protector on a desk (or whack them with a rubber mallet), re-install and try rebooting again.

That's what has worked for me in the past. In fact, an IBM maintenance engineer did it one time to get our 40S running again...

<lol>
Steve

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Bolhuis" <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: Model 200 Help

Matt,

Hopefully the hints to get you to Manual mode and re-IPL have cleared
your problem.

The 9xxx-xxxx numbers refer to hardware failures. "Mostly I/O
Related" is about as much detail as I can scrounge up. So that could be
disks, disk controllers, or even power issues. Given it stopped dead
once even if you get it going again the problem is very likely to recur,
so IF you get the thing up I would make sure my backups were current!

I would also use this opportunity to encourage management to consider
a system built in this century! Preferably with the 'System i' name on
the front!

- Larry

Matt Gross wrote:

I've got a model 200, OS V3R2M0, which went into a halt during a normal (01 B N) IPL.
Front panel shows SRC 917BB982. I've tried to find the code meaning, but haven't had much luck.

Also, I've been trying to get the panel to "03" so I can bring it down/up, but it won't go to "03", only "01","02","04", etc.

I'm stuck on this one, and I really need to get the system back.

Any Help, PLEASE !!!!

TIA,

Matt

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