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

Pete

Bryan Dietz wrote:

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