Re: IPL Source

[Dave Shaw <dshaw1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Sclind2 <Sclind2@aol.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: IPL Source


>In a message dated 98-03-24 18:11:26 EST, you write:
>
><< Spoke with CE...he states that as long as the first two alternate IPL
> device drives are empty, the system will defaul to the next available
> drive.  Also, not to worry about the TAPLIB01 description, as long as
> the drive is functioning properly it will pick it up as an IPL source. >>
>
>So basically there is no longer a visual indication (the % on the displays
or
>reports) that show the 3590 as the alternate IPL device?  I have the same
>situation, and I'm worried that I have to just trust that everything will
be
>OK.  When you need the alternate IPL device the most is when you can least
>afford there being an error!
>
>Has anyone performed a non-destructive test to check if their expected tape
>drive is actually the AIPL device?  Is there such thing as a
non-destructive
>02/D IPL?

All devices capable of holding media with saved SLIC on it are alternate IPL
devices now, as the system scans each one in turn until it either finds one
that has SLIC or checks all of them and gives up (with an annoying SRC on
the front panel, of course).

And yes, I've tested it.  Release upgrades are also non-destructive D
IPL's - there's nothing like discovering that the CD that you THOUGHT had
the SLIC on it really doesn't, that it's another one.  Watching each tape
drive click and whir in turn while waiting to get the SRC so that you can
start again is almost as exciting as watching wood rot...

Dave Shaw, General Nutrition, Greenville, SC (just down the road from BMW -
Bubba Makes Wheels :)
The opinions expressed may not be my employer's unless I'm sufficiently
persuasive...


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