Re: New AS/400's

[Kirk Goins <kgoins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joanie Clark wrote:
> 
> I'm in the processing of negotiating for the new "e" series of
> AS/400's.  I was told, and I haven't researched this, that there is a
> limitation on the first work station controller only.  It will only
> allow 28 devices "active".... now can this really be ???? I thought
> that IBM learned it's lesson with the 40 "active" session years ago.
> Anyone else hear of this ????? Cause if that's the case.. I'll have
> to add another workstation controller to pick up the slack that I've
> lost from the 1st controller.....
> 
> anybody's insight would be appreciated !!
> 
> Joanie Clark
> Joint Township Hospital
> St. Marys, Ohio
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The S10,S20,S30 and S40 will support only 7 active twinax and 6 ascii.
You can cfg more but no more than those can be active. BTW the max
controllers of these type is 1 of each.

600 supports twinax only while 620 will support both ascii and twinax.
The base PCI WAN/Twinax IOA does only support 28 devices on 4 ports and
the ECS line.

640 and 650 support the #6180/#9280 Twinax IOA as the base ctlr. This
IOA plugs into the MFIOP and does support 40 active devices on 8 ports. 

So buy a 640 or 650 and you won't have to order a additional card :)




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Kirk Goins
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