RE: No Alternate IPL Device

["Pytel, Alexei" <pytela1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Most probably you have wrong SCSI address on tape device.
On P02 tape device is external and it has an address switch at the rear.
AIPL device should have address 7. Since AS/400 SCSI bus reverses
address bits, tape address should be set to 0.


    Best regards,

          Alexei Pytel



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Massiello [SMTP:pmassiello@os-solutions.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 1998 8:15 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      No Alternate IPL Device
> 
> We were getting one of our AS/400s ready for the COMMON show when we
> realized that it was still on V3R1.  Its a
> portable AS/400, P02.  (Before I get the 10000 questions why its CISC,
> its because there is no portable RISC
> box, the 170s that we have are just too big & heavy to Lug around).
> So we decided to upgrade it to V3R2, and
> when we do, we keeping getting an SRC of B111 1803, which states
> device not ready.  It is ready, we can use the
> device under OS/400, we can allocate it under DST, but for some reason
> we cant see it as the "D" device when we
> IPL.  So after looking at a WRKHDWPRD, we realize that there is no
> Alternate IPL device on this box.
> 
> Has anyone experienced this, and what did you do to get around it.
> 
> --
> Pete Massiello
> OS Solutions International
> Phone: (203)-744-7854  Ext 11.
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> 
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