RE: HELP! IPL taking DAYS, but appears to be normal...

Al:

Thanks for the message.  You may not recall, but we met a couple times -
either at the Northeast User Group, or maybe Nashville, maybe
Stratford-upon-Avon (UK iSeries group)...

Here's my experience so far...

Automatic IPL for over a day.  Stuck at C900 2C40 but still chugging.

Manual IPL for almost 2 days.  Stuck at C900 29A0 but still chugging.

Manual IPL again.  Stuck at C900 28C5 for over an hour.

Manual IPL again.  This time on the A side.  Still praying.

Question - if an OS object is damaged and I boot off the tape, will I be
able to run some backups?

Re commitment control - this is just a development machine, so I'm not
worried about data.

Thanks.

DAVE

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-----Original Message-----
From: Al Barsa [mailto:barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 11:24 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: HELP! IPL taking DAYS, but appears to be normal...






David,

For you to get back your data, you have to get through a normal IPL.  (Are
you using commitment control?)  All of your other alternatives are ugly.

Al

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