Re: V5R1 vs V4R5

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Marty.  He has a source for more disk, so he's buying the minimum.
Actually that's interesting.  We read somewhere that V4R5 eats up something
like 800MB, and V5R1 uses 1GB.  Double that and there's still 2GB left to
play with, which may go fast, but there's only 2 of us that will be using
it.  It'll be enough for awhile.

I personally would rather see him spend the $ on V5R1 than INS.  I still
haven't heard any good arguments _for_ the INS.  I'd much rather play with
LPAR's -- is that possible on this small a machine now that they have
partial processor capability?  Remember, it doesn't have to _do_ much; this
is not a production machine.

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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909 425-0196 fax


----- Original Message -----
From: "Urbanek, Marty" <Marty_Urbanek@stercomm.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 6:13 AM
Subject: Re: V5R1 vs V4R5


> Peter,
>
> I would opt for V5R1 just because it has that many more "features" ;-) and
> it will be that much longer before it goes out of support. I looked up
your
> original post and I have these comments:
>
> 1) As I think Neil pointed out, 4GB DASD is going to be too tight, IMHO,
> even with V4R5. I just took a quick look at our V4R5 box and it is pretty
> close to 4000MB for LIC, QSYS, and other IBM libs. This is a machine with
> all the compilers and development tools, so that uses some space. However,
> the machine you described is going to need at least a few hundred MB for
the
> INS, so I really can't see 4GB being enough.
>
> 2) The warning you were originally referring to may have been that some
IPCS
> cards (such as my 2850) were no longer supported by V5R1 and that even
> though the card will boot up, the networking support will not load.
>
> 3) If the 170 was in my house, and I was the only user, and I was trying
to
> save money or card slots, I would consider the shared NIC. Otherwise, use
> separate, dedicated NICs for OS/400 and FSIOP/IPCS/INS/IXA regardless of
> OS/400 release.
>
> -Marty



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