Re: Cant find system consule - IPL OK

["David Bulog" <d2ba@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Fixed, I had the junction box pluged into another I/O card(6050)
Moved it back to the origional I/O card and reIPLed an got sign on
port0/address 0

Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: David Bulog <d2ba@xtra.co.nz>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 7:53 PM
Subject: Cant find system consule - IPL OK


> Hi,
> I have a wee problem with my Model 500 V3R7.
> I swapped my 3197c dumb terminal for a smaller 3196 dumb terminal
> and the first IPL gave a SRC A900-2000 (Console error) I switched to
manual
> and powered down.
>
> Found the twinaxe  cable was faulty and swapped the cable ;
> IPLs OK 01 B normal mode. but cant find the system console (the cursor on
> the dumb terminal is flashing in bottom left hand corner which proves I
have
> a good connection.
> Tried all the address settings 0 - 6 and all eight ports on the junction
> box. to no avail.
>
> I'm sure that the new 3196  dumb terminal  is working as it passes every
> test in the handbook; I seem to recall I had a similar problem when I
first
> purchased the machine and tried to set up the 3197c dumb terminal ; It got
a
> sign on screen when I set the second session to address 1 (Port 0)
> This time its not so simple.any ideas welcome as to why my trusty AS/400
is
> playing games with me.?
> Thanks in advance
> Dave
>
>
>
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