Re: Sharing DVD drives between partitions

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Do you need it shared to boot from or just after the system is up and
running.

Might this help??

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/power/i/nfs_optical_upgrade.pdf




On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:45 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a DVD drive in the CEC I want to share between partitions.  Most of
> the partitions are not guested.  Is there some way to create it as a
> virtual so that all partitions can see it without having to vary off,
> dynamic lpar, vary on?  When I use guested lpars and virtualize it, I
> stick the dvd in and both the host and all it's guests show the message in
> qsysopr that the volume is now in OPT01.
> All lpars are at 6.1.1 or 7.1 and the hmc is running 7.7.1SP1.  8203-E4A
> at 01EL350_071.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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