Re: A600 1730 SRC on Panel

We have a customer (who may be reading this....) that added some third
party memory to his model 500. In the process some pins got bent in such
a way that there was no way they were being used.  The system also came
up with an SRC (I don't have it handy) which spoke about performance
issues. However the System reported the memory as being there in SST and
was using it (per WRKSYSSTS etc). The performance problem I surmise was
that error correction was required on all data in that section of memory
due to the missing pins.  We removed the card and all is well (except he
has less memory).

 - Larry

Neil Palmer wrote:
> 
> Welcome to the club.  :-)
> Been through this recently on a customer's 400-2130.
> You have too much memory installed.  The maximum for the 400-2130 is
> 160MB.
> When you installed the additional 2x64MB you should have removed one of
> the 32MB.
> Now our customer seemed to run fine with SRCA6001730 posted for over a
> year and WRKSYSSTS and DSPHDWRSC *STG seemed to show the system was using
> 192MB.  All higher model 400 processors can utilize 3 additional memory
> slots, but the handbook says there are only 2 additional slots (probably
> means only two that work properly) on the 2130.
> 
> Problem occured when upgrading to V4R5 as that uprade turns on the
> Auto-MainStorageDump option (changeable in DST) which seemed to throw us
> into a loop at IPL time.
> Anyway - remove the 32MB memory and all should be fine.
> I'll email you separately with some background detail on the situation.

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Larry Bolhuis           | Cogito Ergo Vendo iSeries 
Arbor Solutions, Inc.   |
(616) 451-2500          |               (I think, therefore I buy iSeries.)
(616) 451-2571 -fax     |
lbolhuis@arbsol.com     |        #3  1951-2001
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