Re: booting JS12 ibm i from virtual media -- MIDRANGE-L

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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I finally got my install to work. The final crazy error was a reported
hardware failure when I tried to activate the i5/os partition from the
install media. A long time on the phone with IBM blade hardware
support and then Rochester i5/OS install support, it turned out I had
mistakenly inserted the 2nd and not the 1st IBM i install DVD. never
mind, sorry!

Ah well, it's running now. That's all that matters.

I thought the install was relatively quick. The process of
initializing the system, adding drives to the ASP, loading the LIC and
OS was 2x faster than doing the same on my 460CPW 170. The BCS is a
very sporty piece of hardware. Not too noisy ( esp if the room is cool
) and so far does not use much electricity.

My comparison was to a 515 with 4 arms in a RAID5 configuration. On my
system, initializing the disks took ages (multiple hours). Maybe
something was already fixed in the firmware revisions you received,
because the performance i had can't be normal.

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