Re: Twinax console refuses to give signon screen - Saga Continues

maybe if the twinax side of thecard is bad you could use operation console 
cable and use the ECS(comm) part for the console connection.

just have to get a cable.




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Bryan Dietz 
Aktion Associates 


midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/04/2006 06:08:27 PM:

-> Still looking for my wrap plug so I can test the card but I am 
-> suspicious now of the card itself.  Unfortunately I can't get the TCP 
or 
-> Telnet services to start so right now I am dead stick with this 170. 
-> Fortunately this is NOT a production box.  On a whim, I dragged my 
-> little E02 out and connected the cable and console to it.  It came up 
-> (after about 45 minutes).  I get a signon screen and can log into it so 

-> I KNOW that the cable and terminal are A-OK.  I re-seated the card in 
-> the 170 but no joy...
-> 
-> First question for anyone familiar with console issues on the list:  Is 

-> there any configuration problem that would prevent the console from 
-> coming online at IPL?  Somewhere in the bowels of this machine could 
-> there be a setting that is hosing up the console (I am currently 
IPL'ing 
-> from CD to try to eliminate any possibility of a config issue but...)
-> 
-> Question #2 : Any other ideas?  This is really strange and if it is a 
-> hardware failure it is the first one I have experienced in the 10 or so 

-> years I have owned an AS/400 / iSeries / System i.
-> 
-> Question #3: The card is a 2720 (ESC and console) .  Anybody have one 
of 
-> these laying around that I could borrow until I know for sure the one I 

-> have is toast?  I'd like to try a replacement card and if it works I'll 

-> go to eBay and by a permanent replacement.
-> 
-> Thanks.
-> 
-> Pete Helgren