RE: What to expect with a 9406-170?

["Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Clay, do you have a piece of regular twinax cable available to you? I would
try that first.

You do not need a terminator on the splitter.

Paul Nelson
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Clay Carley
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 7:35 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: What to expect with a 9406-170?

Hi Rob (and everybody),

Thanks for that link; I had found other documentation but not that 
particular one yet.

I was able to get the console connected, and although I believe I did 
the connection and configuration correctly, this is still my first time 
working on this type of hardware.  In any case, I still saw nothing on 
screen but a cursor on the top right.

The 3476 is set to address 0
One side of the twinax splitter is plugged into port 0 on the 4-port 
twinax brick (does the other side need a terminator?)
I used a balun on the splitter, connected to a cat-5 cable (tested, 
works) to a balun on the 4-port twinax brick.

I'll be working on troubleshooting the failed device; please tell me 
though if my console connection is incorrect.

I very much appreciate the assistance so far,
Clay Carley


On 01/17/2013 07:54 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I humble and prostrate myself in front of the likes of DrFranken and his
> ilk but I do not believe that opening the machine will aid you in
> determining which drive is bad - other than an obvious bullet hole through
> the drive.  Or horrific screeching sound indicated by heads dragging on
> disk.
http://as400bks.rochester.ibm.com/html/as400/v4r5/ic2924/v4r5hwpdf/pdf/y4459
653.pdf
> A 675A error is part of the "I/O Processor and I/O Adapter Reference
> Codes".  That page says that the 3200 indicates "A tape/CD or disk device
> reported a failure" and references these next steps:  FI01105, STORIOA,
> IOP, MEDIA.  These, I believe, qualify as "Symbolic FRUs", (except for the
> FI01105).  But basically drilling around may have you go through Problem
> Isolation Procedures (PIP) to determine the failing unit.  For example
> "SDIOP-PIP16" on page 311.
>
>
> Rob Berendt