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I believe the block size is controlled by the microcode in the drive.

I think the block size for i is 520 and for p is 512. They are not compatible.

To run p drives configured for i you need to run VIOS on a partition that manages the p disks.

Jerry

On 10/14/2011 8:45 AM, Steve Richter wrote:
trying to boot an iSeries 270 from a single 36GB pSeries drive.

IBM 36GB 10K eSERVER pSERIES USCSI HARD DRIVE 09P4444

get as far as the DST menu. From the initialize and format disk units
option, the drive shows up as "non configured".

after f10=confirm initialize and format, get an error:

"the system encounered an error while it was attempting to read or write to
a disk unit"

shows the drive as:
type 6600 model 030 resource name DPH001 reference code I/O processor
0000 device 0000

here is a link that appears to say pSeries drives use 528 byte sectors same
as iSeries.

Is it possible to use pSeries drives in an iSeries?


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