Re: Upgrade hardware

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One other small point, but an important one.

Ground yourself before you touch the new memory and/or the system.  
Acquire and use a grounding strap! An alternative is to grab the chassis 
with both hands and hold it for a second.  Chances are you won't need 
it, but IBM CEs rarely use them because they can just go get more parts, 
you may not have that option.  An IBM CE can replace the planar board if 
he fries it, I'm guessing you can't.  This very small prophylaxis may 
save your system, and your job.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 3/23/2011 6:45 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Good point on the resource names.  I suggest doing a RTVCFGSRC (or option
> 9 on WRKLIND) and storing the source to recreate the line (and any
> controllers and devices associated with that line).  We run a RTVCFGSRC
> *ALL as part of our backup.  If you're really clever you can go into SST
> and change resource names to match your existing descriptions.
>
> Pour over the line description and change the necessary parameters to
> handle this (there is more than one).  Make sure your router takes
> advantage of this new speed.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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> Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 
> 03/22/2011 08:06 PM Subject: Re: Upgrade hardware Sent by: 
> midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx You will need to know 'where' the 
> goes. Every model has its own requirements and in what order ( sockets 
> ) the chips must be placed. So have the docs handy. If it is a 520 the 
> Ethernet ports on the motherboard are GB, So I assume you have other 
> cards you are replacing. I think the 10/100 cards needed an IOP where 
> the current GB cards do not. I am pretty sure the resource names will 
> change on your line descriptions. I have in some cases needed to 
> recreate the lines in question to get them to work properly. 2011/3/22 
> Tomasz Skorża <t.skorza@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >  Hi guys
> > >
> > >  I'm planning to upgrade my server from 4 to 16 GB of RAM and 100Mb
> network
> > >  cards to 1Gb card.
> > >
> > >  How to prepare server and myself for this issue?
> > >  Of course full bakcup system - but what else?
> > >
> > >  regards
> > >
> > >  Tomek
> > >
> > >  Server model 520 with V5R4 without LP
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