Re: More info on V4R5 to V5R2..Hardware

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yup, the optical is going to need changing.

Which reel tape drive do you have? Better be 9348 or you're in trouble...

The rest of the stuff you have will still work. Depending on how hard you're 
driving the rest of the stuff you may have to shuffle comm lines.

We have lots of customers running the stuff indicated as having performance 
limitations but nobody has experienced any related issues. This includes some 
fairly large 730's that run pretty hard all day.

I would definetely look at your upgrade path and plant seeds for a replacement 
box with 'da boss'.

 - LArry

Mark Allen wrote:
> OK, I have gone thru the IBM Release Planning Info (phew!!!) and come up
> with the following for my 720.
>  
> I understand that I WILL have to upgrade/change the Optical as it is
> definitely not supported which from what I understand means it will
> fail.
>  
> My question to the list is what is everyones experience with the "May
> experience performance limitations" items.  Surely someone has some of
> them still running on V4R5 or did everyone make the "suggested" IBM
> replacements?
>  
> Again, thanks to the list and all its great emembers for the help so
> far.
>  
> 2468	 M001-Sys Ctl Panel	 			
> 2609	 Comm Adaptor	 Supported/May have perf limit	 V5R1 and R2
>
> 2609	 v.24 port	 Supported/May have perf limit	 V5R1 and R2
>
> 2609	 v.24 port	 Supported/May have perf limit	 V5R1 and R2
>
> 2612	 Comm Adaptor	 Supported/May have perf limit	 V5R1 and R2
>
> 2612     v.24 port enhanced      Supported/May have perf limit   V5R1
> and R2          
> 2613     Comm Adaptor    Supported/May have perf limit   V5R1 and R2
>
> 2613	 v.35 port	 Supported/May have perf limit	 V5R1 and R2
>
> 2621     Storage Controller      Supported/May have perf limit   V5R1
> and R2   Optical Attached to it 
> 2621     Storage Controller      Supported/May have perf limit   V5R1
> and R2   Reel Tape Attached to it       
> 3995     C40-Optical     Not supported   V5R1 not mentioned in R2
>
> 6050	 WS Proc	 Supported/May have perf limit	 V5R1 and R2
>
> 6050     WS Ctl  Supported/May have perf limit   V5R1 and R2     Console
> only attached   
> 6390     8mm Tape                               
> 6512     Storage Controller      Supported/May have perf limit   V5R1
> and R2   Disk   



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