Re: What to expect with a 9406-170?

[Clay Carley <cbc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi DrFranken,

Thanks for the info!  I'll be tearing into the system again tomorrow 
hopefully.

I am pleased to announce, however, that I finally see output on the 
twinax console!  Looks like V5R2 is the way it's going, and I'm 
incredibly stoked as it is initializing it's disks right now.  I guess 
it's moot if the RAID card battery is dead; but that's OK as I'm 
definitely a step forward at this point.

Clay

On 01/25/2013 08:27 PM, DrFranken wrote:
> 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
>
> www.frankeni.com
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> www.iInTheCloud.com
>
> 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