RE: V5R4 and 8GB drives

Where are you located? Sound like a great opportunity to outsource to
an individual like myself that has the hardware experience. If your
local, I would only charge a six pack and some pizza.

Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 7:21 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: V5R4 and 8GB drives

From: Pat Barber

A used tape drive is trivial in expense and you can certainly
do a save and restore.

The more I look at it, the more this seems to be the way to go. Of
course,
this is my "back release" machine and is currently on V5R1, so I have
that
additional complexity to consider.

These boxes have been "DIY" for quite some time.

Ah, Pat, you're probably right but I consider it something of a victory
if I
manage to plug the headphones into my MP3 player <grin>. Seriously, I
built
a small form-factor PC for my wife, but as you know PCs these days are
pretty much plug and play. I have NEVER opened up a midrange with
malice
aforethought, so it will be a new experience.

The disk drives are fairly cheap, so this would be the best
way to go.

Go here for the books on "how to do it"...

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/v4r5/ic2924/v4r5hwpdf/inde
x.

htm

This looks great. I definitely didn't know about this site, and I will
be
doing some reading.

Removing the covers is the biggest challenge.

I have a big hammer...

If the IBM GARS site works next week, I'll shoot you some prices
if you wish.

Please do so. More and more it looks like maybe a used tape drive and a
some tapes might not be a bad idea. I can probably offload most of my
user
libraries using FTP, and then just save and restore the OS, base
libraries
and IFS using GO SAVE/21.