Re: Disk upgrade and IOP compatibility - followup

William,

  Do remember that occasionally IBM sends PTFs that actually end up
getting downloaded to the drives. This does not happen for 3rd party
drives (or more correctly, when it does the results are as they say 
"unpredicable"). It is possible that some of the PTFs may be for the
drives to work with your controller (as opposed to the controller
working with your drives) in which case they will have no affect on the
3rd party drives.

 - Larry

> I called for an IBM service call (at hi$), talked to the CE (or whatever
> they're called now) on the phone, hopefully before I get a huge bill, and he
> recommended a new ptf package - MF23265 (v4r4) or MF23266 (v4r5) - which
> just came out and specifically addresses the new bigger 10K drives.  And,
> plundering around pretty deep in SST, I did find that the reported 675A is
> really a 2745 IOP.  This is pretty new, I believe, and is reportedly a
> really good controller.  Must've got it when I upgraded my CPU a couple
> months ago...they are on the same backplane now.


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Larry Bolhuis           | Cogito ergo mercari iSeries 
Arbor Solutions, Inc.   |
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lbolhuis@arbsol.com     |        #3  1951-2001
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