Re: Swapping Cards on Model 740

[Philipp Rusch <philipp.rusch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, an 6501, a grandpa is going to retire :-)
The 6534 is considerably faster as well as the utlrium drive should be.

Regards from Germany, Philipp

Wayne McAlpine schrieb:

> Thanks, Philipp.  The current IPL device is a 3490E and it's attached 
> to a 6501 card in the IPL slot on bus 0.  I need to replace the 6501 
> with a new 6534 card and move the 6501 to a vacant slot on another 
> bus.  We're retaining the 3490E in order to be able to read our 
> existing tapes.
>
> Philipp Rusch wrote:
>
> > Hi Wayne,
> > I think with a series 7xx  system the IPL devices have to be on bus 0
> > but I can be wrong ....
> > This should not be a problem if you are just exchanging controllers
> > in the same slot, though.
> >
> > HTH, Philipp
> >
> > Wayne McAlpine schrieb:
> >
> > > We purchased a new Ultrium tape library and I need to swap tape 
> > > controller cards to make it the alternate IPL device.  I've watched 
> > > the CE do this enough times but I wanted to confirm that I just need 
> > > to turn autconfig on and IPL in manual mode, go in to DST and add 
> > > the hardware.  Anyone else attempted this and could offer some tips?
> > >
> > >
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