Re: using pSeries drive in iSeries

AFAIK it was a difference in firmware, the same that made it
impossible to use p or i drives in normal scsi controllers (bah, out
of 15 pseries drives only 4 worked for me, but put them in a pseries
and ALL were good).
When the system detects the drive as 6600 IT IS NOT GOING TO WORK
i encountered the 6600 problem when i put 15k drives in a 820.

Best regards,

Roberto

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

the AS/400 & iSeries used a different sized sector  (think iSeries
used 528 and pSeries used 512)..

Obviously something's different now with POWER5 and higher...

But your 270 is older...

IIRC, there was a way to reformat the pSeries drive for use in an
iSeries..but a quick google search didn't turn up anything...

Charles


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Steve Richter
<stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

trying to boot an iSeries 270 from a single 36GB pSeries drive.

IBM 36GB 10K eSERVER pSERIES USCSI HARD DRIVE 09P4444

get as far as the DST menu.   From the initialize and format disk units
option, the drive shows up as "non configured".

after f10=confirm initialize and format, get an error:

 "the system encounered an error while it was attempting to read or write to
a disk unit"

shows the drive as:
type 6600  model 030  resource name DPH001  reference code I/O processor
0000  device 0000

here is a link that appears to say pSeries drives use 528 byte sectors same
as iSeries.

Is it possible to use pSeries drives in an iSeries?
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