RE: S/N

David,

I also *THINK* that it is a soft-coded, I used to claimed to IBM regarding
the s/n of new E10 (in 1992) is differ from a delivery note and all other
documents.   IBM's CE just swapped a new main board (CPU) to an E10 then
perform something like resetting machine on the panel, power down the system
and then he replace a main board with an old one !!!  ... IPL the machine
and check to system value, s/n is changed correctly.

Just a merely information.
Patpong W.

> ----------
> From:         David Gibbs[SMTP:david@midrange.com]
> Reply To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Sent:         Monday, February 01, 1999 9:41 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: S/N
> 
> At 11:16 PM 1/28/99 , brian wrote:
> >Does anyone know how the AS/400 system serial number is actually
> >implemented in hardware?  Talk of Arizona banning Pentium IIIs with
> serial
> >numbers has me thinking about it.
> 
> I *THINK* that the s/n is soft-coded into the system... as when I upgraded
> systems from a CISC system to a RISC, the new system had the same s/n as
> the old one.
> 
> I could be wrong on this, however.
> 
> david
> 
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