Re: iplsrrc(d)

[Neil Palmer <NeilP@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It probably checks for 5 minutes because it's common to start an upgrade
from a powered off state, and often you can't load a tape until the system
starts powering up, and it may take a while for the drive to come ready
(QIC's that fast forward/rewind to retension come to mind, as well as some
older drives that take a while to manually load, like 1/2" reel).

...Neil






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During an OS/400 upgrade you can watch this on the console (its as much
fun as watching paint dry), but it will spend 5 minutes looking at and
for tape devices for the D mode IPL, and then after that five minutes
are up, it will then start to look for your CD.  I don't know why it
spends 5 minutes, but I have noticed this behavior in upgrading to V4R4,
V4R5, and V5R1.  A true pain-in-the-butt when on a RISC machine you do
an upgrade 99.99% of the time with a CD.

    Pete

Pat Barber wrote:

>On RISC processors, it will look to OPT01 first, and failing that, it
>will start with installed tape drives. Since you can't order OS/400
>on anything but CDROM, OPT01 is the primary device it will look to.
>
>In the event of a restore, it will look to the alternate IPL device.
>
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>Alan Novick wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know where I can find what device is specified in IPLSRC(D)?
>>
>>Planning to go to V5R1 this Sunday, after the Leonids!
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