RE: Twinax Device Addresses

When I GO HARDWARE and run " 2. Work with local workstation resources," I see two controllers: CTL03 and CTL05. But there's only one "loon" (brick) coming out of the back of the 520. There are five [5] of these old twinax dot matrix printers; they are all used (to varying degrees) and all of them show up when I run WRKCFGSTS *DEV.

When I run PRTDEVADR against CTL03, I get a message that " Controller CTL03 not found" (CPF2602). My set-up is identical to that described by Loyd.

I know that there are two printers configured for Port 1 because I looked at their configuration. This whole question started, in fact, because I had to swap these printers out yesterday, and I was looking for an unused address on the port that I could use temporarily for one of them so I could change the configuration without having to muck around with those DIP switches.

Thanks.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Massiello
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 7:53 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Twinax Device Addresses

Do you have multiple Twinax controllers?

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 8:40 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Twinax Device Addresses

We still have a few twinax line printers here. They are connected to the
System i via an Ethernet patch panel; the twinax control is connected to the
panel with a balun and Ethernet cable.

Pretty rudimentary stuff, I think. My question is: Why, when I run the
PRTDEVADR command these printers do not show up? In fact, the only thing
that shows up in the list is the old system console at port 0 address 0.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx