Re: 520 Installation Problems

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Pete and still have the question about why the 5703 card in 
the first place. Are you doing Controller level RAID, doing very heavy 
I/O or doing LPAR? If not then you really don't have the need for the 5703.

 - Larry

Pete Massiello wrote:

> John,
>
>    The question becomes, why did your business partner (or whomever 
> you bought the machine from) not do a config, preferably using the LVT 
> (doesn't matter if it was an LPAR machine or not) so that you had a 
> configuration layout to put the cards into?  How could he/she have 
> known all those cards would have fit, and that you had the right 
> prerequisite IOPs etc if they didn't do that for you.  Why did they 
> not help you with the install?
>
>    Pete Massiello
>
> John Taylor wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > Thanks to all who replied. There was an error in my original email. I 
> > had
> > typed the positions of the 5702 and 5703 incorrectly. The cards are 
> > actually
> > placed as follows:
> >
> > C1 - 2844 IOP
> > C2 - 2746 Twinax
> > C3 - 9793 WAN
> > C4 - 5703 Raid Adapter
> > C5 - 5702 Tape Controller
> > C6 - 2844 IOP
> >
> > Based upon all the documentation I could find (including the link 
> > provided
> > by JR), these are the correct card positions. Since the server was 
> > still not
> > IPL'ing, I contacted IBM Support, and they were able to verify that the
> > cards were placed in the correct positions. They suggested that I try
> > reseating them again. I did so, and the machine IPL'd successfully.
> >
> > For the archives, here at the tools which I found useful: