Re: Long IPL at SRC C600 3915

I've been through the light bounce, freeze it and quickly duplicate it,
and "Oh Frack it's a brick" with disk drives but all have been out of
PCs. As long as you don't count the old 3370 drives that caused a Sys/38
error light and the CE reported that each pass of PUMP to tape got less
than the previous. :-(

Basically, in 7 years this system has actually been powered off a total
of about 7 times. Four of those were hardware upgrades/maintenance.
Added sidecar, RAID batteries replaced, and replace the UPS. There have
been three disk drive replacements but they were all Hot Swap RAID.

Roger

On 10/13/2009 7:01 AM, Paul Nelson arranged the binary bits such that:

<<I think this is the first time I have ever treated the IBM i like a
PC. Pulling the power cords and waiting 10 seconds after the lights in
the power supplies went completely out before rebooting seems to be
working. It went by C6003915 in under 5 minutes and came fully
alive in 10.>>

Sounds good. You never had to rap a disk drive with a screwdriver handle to
free it from stiction? Those were the days.

:-))

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
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To: Lukas Beeler
Subject: Re: Long IPL at SRC C600 3915

Quoting Lukas Beeler <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 18:22, Roger Vicker, CCP <rv-tech@xxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

I had them hit the power button and it seemed to be starting but it has
been sitting at SRC C600 3915 for over an hour. The description is
"Licensed internal code (LIC) has initiated the load source IOP
self-load." so I am thinking this should be a quick step instead. The
customer is not reporting an alert light yet. I hope to get onsite in an
hour.

I've seen a machine stuck on this message before. It was a 250 oder
270. It was a broken disk - resolution was to pull the load source and
have the system IPL from the mirror. Worked fine after replacing the
disk.

Might be something else in your case, though.

Does this still sound like an Oh Frack or the rare Like A PC and reboot
it again?

I'd try to IPL again first. The disk controllers on the Power 520
models are rather flaky, and i've seen at least two machines that
sometimes just wouldn't IPL. A powercycle would help them get back on
track.

Onsite now.

I forgot to mention that this was a 9406-800 model.

I think this is the first time I have ever treated the IBM i like a
PC. Pulling the power cords and waiting 10 seconds after the lights in
the power supplies went completely out before rebooting seems to be
working. It went by C6003915 in under 5 minutes and and came fully
alive in 10.

Thanks.

Roger