Pat and Kirk..... Thanks.
Well, after wrestling with this for 2 days, I brought it to a used iSeries
vendor that is local here in the Atlanta area (DataTech for anyone
interested). I spoke with their tech guy on the phone and he said to bring
the system by. He said my card config was correct and SHOULD work, but
moved the MFIOP in slot C5 down to C4. It then booted in manual mode to a
console on his bench. I figured I must have had a bad brick, pseudo twinax
cable (baulens and cat5) or my tube was bad (but baffled me that the brick,
cable and tube are my in use on another iseries in my data center). Sure
enough, I brought it back to my DC, hooked it to the exact same
configuration and wham!!!! It works too. So I am guessing it was picky
where the 2842 card was. Of course I felt like a dummy, but after all the
time I have wasted, at least it is working now.
Thanks to all who read or helped.
cjg
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pat Barber
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 2:21 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Model 270 DSD - console problem
Here is a link to most of the key manuals for the 270....
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/v5r1hwpdf/pdf/model270.htm
Carl Galgano wrote:
Here is one for you old hardware guys:
I have a model 270 DSD. I have no idea what kind of console it was
originally configure for. I would like to use it with a twinax console.
The system booted fine, I could connect via IP.
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