Re: Can a CUM PTF update the microcode on the service processor?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Galgano" <cgalgano2@ediconsulting.com>
To: "Midrange List" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 1:25 PM
Subject: Can a CUM PTF update the microcode on the service processor?


> At first I figured that the PTF load had something to do with it, but
> all logic tells me that this is a hardware issue, with the DASD not
> installed, the box should know nothing about the PTFs I loaded.  Is it
> possible that the PTFs updated the microcode of one of the cards in the
> box (ie the service processor - 244A)?  Any insight to this would be
> very helpful.


I would suspect the hardware.
A D IPL from clean CD's would HAVE to work. If you loaded from them once,
you should be able to IPL from them again. Nothing on the 400 other than
hardware can stop a D IPL.

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