Re: 520 Installation Problems

Hi John,

           We had the same issues with no documentation. Here is an 
excellent link. Choose Installing Hardware on the left side and pick your 
server. It will tell and show you via short video clips how and where to 
install the hardware. Good luck!

JR VanOoteghem 
Cabell County E-911
Huntington, WV 25701

-----Original Message-----
From: "John Taylor" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 18:10:01 -0600
Subject: 520 Installation Problems

>  
> Folks,
> 
> I'm attempting a customer (that'd be me) install of a new 520 with some
> optional feature cards, and getting nowhere fast. Neither the machine
> nor
> the parts shipped with any kind of i5/OS related installation
> instructions,
> but I did get:
> 
>    1) a 500 page Safety Manual
>    2) AIX installation instructions for a 5703 SCSI card
> 
> Gee.. thanks IBM.
> 
> Anway, the base machine included the following components:
> 
> 4 - 4326 Disk Units (35.16 GB)
> 1 - 2844 IOP
> 1 - 2746 Twinax IOA
> 1 - 9793 WAN IOA
> 
> I'm trying to install the additional features:
> 
> 1 - 6594 4-Disk Expansion cage
> 1 - 5703 PCI-X RAID controller
> 1 - 5702 PCI-X Tape controller
> 1 - 2844 PCI IOP
> 
> The original PCI card positions were as follows:
> 
> C1 - empty
> C2 - empty
> C3 - 9793 WAN
> C4 - empty
> C5 - 2746 Twinax 
> C6 - 2844 IOP
> 
> Using what little documentation I could find at the Infocenter, I came
> up
> with the following changes to the card positions:
> 
> C1 - 2844 IOP
> C2 - 2746 Twinax 
> C3 - 9793 WAN
> C4 - 5702 Tape Controller
> C5 - 5703 Raid Adapter
> C6 - 2844 IOP
> 
> I installed the cards in the new positions, installed the disk cage & 4
> additional disks, and connected the new disk cage to controller 0 of
> the
> 5703 adapter, using the supplied SCSI cable.
> 
> The end result is that I can't IPL into DST. The machine is not finding
> the
> workstation controller (SRC A6005001).
> 
> If anyone out there has some decent reference manuals, could you please
> take
> a quick look at my card assignments to see if something is amiss?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> John Taylor
> 
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