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Perform a "D" IPL from a SLIC CD.

If you look at the DASD unit it will most likely be marked something like "DPH001" meaning read only.

Start SST:
Work with disk units
Work with Disk Unit Recovery
Disk unit problem recovery procedures
Initialize and format disk unit


Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 10/14/2011 11:23 AM, Charles Wilt wrote:
the AS/400& iSeries used a different sized sector (think iSeries
used 528 and pSeries used 512)..

Obviously something's different now with POWER5 and higher...

But your 270 is older...

IIRC, there was a way to reformat the pSeries drive for use in an
iSeries..but a quick google search didn't turn up anything...

Charles


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Steve Richter
<stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> 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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