Re: What to expect with a 9406-170?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Clay,

	Pictures are worth a thousand words! Looking at those I can see there 
are Eight disk units in there. This means that the system has a RAID 
card. There is no way to configure that machine with more than 4 drives 
without adding a RAID card. It's VERY likely that the battery on that 
RAID card is failed. If you take the card out and bring the battery to 
Batteries Plus (or whatever is in your neighborhood) you can usually get 
a replacement for under $20.   I would certainly do that before I began 
a recovery.  The RAID card will be on the side with the control panel 
and the 4 drive cage. The slot it is in is mandatory so put it back 
where you find it. :-)

	So that you know the Load Source disk unit is the disk immediately 
below the CD Drive on that side.  Placement of the rest of the disk 
units does not matter they will be found at IPL and recognized by their 
serial numbers.

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 1/25/2013 4:28 PM, Clay B Carley wrote:
> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro*
> I want to thank everyone again for their assistance.  I'm working on the
> system now when time allows; and just in case, I found a 10 foot twinax
> cable on ebay today & ordered it to eliminate the possibility of the
> baluns being bad.
>
> Another question; during an IPL D-M, will the system attempt to read the
> optical drive more than once?  I see codes changing on the panel, and
> they cycle back to the same one they started with after a while, but
> only see the optical drive flicker a couple of times after it powers up.
>
> I did get my webserver back up and running, for anyone who is curious I
> have photos here:
> http://carleynet.net/familypictures/view_album.php?set_albumName=album70
>
> Thanks again,
> Clay Carley
>
> rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I wouldn't doubt IBM has someplace for that.  I am thinking things like
> > system password and whatnot...  Chips are cheap.  But I see where you're
> > going at.  And if it's per lpar, couldn't that be 254 * a maximum of 1,000
> > lpars?
> >
> >
> > Rob Berendt