Re: No Alternate IPL Device

[Pete Massiello <pmassiello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alexei,

   You are correct, thank you, thank you, thank you.  It seems that OS/400 will
allow any address on the tape drive, but the alternative IPL device will only
work when it is 0.

  THanks for the help.

      Pete

Pytel, Alexei wrote:

> 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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Pete Massiello
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