Re: New 5886

Seeing that it has some very big cautions and,
that it's connecting to the CEC,
and these lpars are all Mimix replicas or Domino clusters from stuff
already served elsewhere,
I think I'll just bring it down.


Rob Berendt
-- IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600 Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive Garrett, IN 46738 Ship to: Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com From: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Date: 09/03/2013 02:03 PM Subject: Re: New 5886 Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx It Depends. :-) The Correct IBM Answer is No. The Correct answer if this is a production server is No. The Correct answer if you don't want to break stuff is No. If you are just messing around with old stuff and don't care about it, then yes, it does work. Do remember that only 2 5886s can be in a single chain. - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis www.frankeni.com www.iDevCloud.com www.iInTheCloud.com On 9/3/2013 9:31 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I am getting another 5886 disk expansion unit with a number of disk

drives

> in it.
> I told my boss to get the cable to daisy chain off of the existing 5886
> which is hooked up via:
> Resource name . . . . . . . : DC06
> Text . . . . . . . . . . . . : Storage Controller
> Type-model . . . . . . . . . : 57B8-001
> Serial number . . . . . . . : YL1128008130
> Part number . . . . . . . . : 0000044V3298
> Location : U789C.001.DQD0P72-P1-C10
>
> Can I hook up this daisy chain cable live? If so, how? RTFM links ok.
>
> Rob Berendt
>

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