Re: LPAR question - primary partition ??

You have some dated documentation. The Primary partition is no longer
required for currently produced equipment. It was required when LPARS were
first introduced on the System i.

Steve

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Again, I'm coming from a "z" environment. We've had LPAR for a very long
time. One very confusing, to me, difference is that on the "i", you have
a "primary partition" which must run the "i" system software. What is
this partition doing? There is no such thing on the "z". Or perhaps it
might be more accurate to say that the "primary partition" equivalent
(PR/SM) runs from what is called the HSA (Hardware Storage Area) which
is memory taken "off the top" and which contains the PR/SM (LPAR)
software along with a lot of hardware defination control blocks.

John McKown

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