Glad to hear Michael!
Thanks for reiterating to the community your tips on keeping system info
tucked away for just this type of occasion as well!
Follow-up question: Do you think you'll end up purchasing a replacement
part, just in case? It sounds like you might need something from Tables 3 or
4 at this link:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power6?topic=sp-8203-e4a-8261-e4s-9407-m15-9408-
m25-system-parts
Just a thought.
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Jacob
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date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 13:36:00 +0000
from: "Mayer, Michael via MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Power 6 8203-E4A
Morning all. There is a happy ending to this thread.
As you all know, an SRC of B2004158 = system cannot locate it's load source
drive. Many of you said the load source drive was MIA which is was true. The
question was "is it dead?"
The box doesn't have a maint contract on it so it is "an accepted risk"
(mgmt. decision) if something goes wrong and on me to get it running, if
possible.
We were moving from 1 UPS to another. I wouldn't do it without a full system
save. That was completed Monday, mid-day.
We then powered off the partition and then the managed system. We then
simply moved the power from 1 UPS to the other.
The managed system powered up normally, the partition died with a B200-4158
error. The classic "load source cannot be located. Did the load source drive
die? Did the chassis the drives are in die? Did a controller card die or a
cable go bad?
The only way to being it up was to run a D manual IPL with an IBASE01 LIC
DVD. I inherited this system and was left with little to almost no resources
for it.
Fortunately, IBM still has V7R1 IBASE material and all of the BGROUPxx LIC /
OS available for download.
I was able to pull the IBASE01 LIC down and burn a DVD. The DVD goes into
the box, we IPL as D manual and we get into DST to see what is going on.
In conjunction with that as a side note, I keep EVERY BIT of system info for
all partitions online for reference.
PRTSYSINF plus SYSSNAP from MGTOOLS plus my own homegrown CLLE to get JOBDS
to print.
I pull the system config which shows the drives.
There are 9 drives in the back of the physical box and 7 upfront including
the load source.
In DST a look at the disk config only showed the back 9 drives.
The entire front chassis was not reporting in. And now it's WTF?
I put out a blog message on this on midrange.com. Many thought the load
source drive died. Many of you were kind enough to weigh in.
As it turns out, a virtual IOP failed looking at the hardware resources in
DST. This was a chassis controller card to the drives in front which
included the load source.
Josh Osborne of Abacus Solutions was kind enough to call me out of the blue
to work with me. Unbelievable. And I'm Incredibly grateful for his support.
Our IBM i community is THE BEST!
Ends up he has a replica of our box in his shop. He said that the back
controller card which controls the back 9 drives had 2 slots in it and 1 of
them was open.
I moved the back 9 controller card cable from the bottom slot to the top of
that card. We then moved the front controller card cable from it's location
in the 5790 expansion unit to the bottom of the back controller card.
Effectively, we ran all of the drives off of 1 controller card using both
slots.
Next was to update the load source location on the partition.
The partition IPL'd except it now had a failed drive which we're in the
process of resolving.
Very Respectfully,
Michael Mayer
IBM i on Power System Admin.
IT Operations.
The Florida Bar
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2300
mmayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://www.floridabar.org
Office: 850.561.5761
Cell: 518.641.8906
2. Power 6 8203-E4A (Mayer, Michael via MIDRANGE-L)
3. RE: Power 6 8203-E4A (Rob Berendt)
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date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 19:23:02 +0000
from: "Mayer, Michael via MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Power 6 8203-E4A
Hey guys, it's rare I reach out for help but ...
I have an old Power 6 8203-E4A with a V7R1 partition on it.
I completed a full system save on it and my network guys wanted to power it
completely down to move it from 1 UPS to another.
Mission accomplished EXCEPT ...
The managed server comes up fine. The V7R1 partition is stuck at the
B2004158 - load source cannot be found error.
We've tried everything you can think of to get this thing back. It shares a
tape resource with a V7R2 partition that is a guest on a Power 9 partition.
I acquired this set up.
Any idea's on how to get the V7R1 on the Power 6 running? I've googled it
from 1 end to the other. Not quite sure any of what I've located Will work
for this?
Any and all contributions gratefully accepted.
Very Respectfully,
Michael Mayer
IBM i on Power System Admin.
IT Operations.
The Florida Bar
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2300
mmayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://www.floridabar.org
Office: 850.561.5761
Cell: 518.641.8906
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