Re: Issues IPL'ing 9406-179

I believe he has no raid as the disk controller is 675A which I seem to recall is the No Raid base controller those machines shipped with by default if you had 4 drives or fewer.


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On 9/18/2013 8:49 AM, Roberto José Etcheverry Romero wrote:

To check is the disks were raid'ed, check the model/type. You might have
6713-7X or 6713-50 (6713 being a type of disk 7X a disk under raid and 50 a
disk without raid).
Best Regards,



On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:29 PM, RASU <rasu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Jack.
I managed to IPL from the CD and was able to get to DST
From there I analyzed the Disks and one had unreadable errors.
It did give me a Serial Number & Name.
Before I exit DST I have these option:

1) Save Load Source Disk Unit Data
2) Copy Load Source Disk Unit Data
3) Display/change Page Data
4) Analyze Disk Unit Surface (which is what I did)
5) Initialize & Format Disk
6) Reclaim IOP Cache Storage
7) Stop Device Parity Protection

Since I couldn't IPL without the CD - I'm assuming the bad disk is a
Load Disk

So before I exit - since I'm also assuming I had RAID

Is there anything I can do to prevent having to reload the system entirely
?

Thanks for any advice,
Anguis





On 9/17/2013 1:44 PM, Jack Kingsley wrote:

Rasu, maybe this reference will assist you.

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.midrange/182980


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:37 PM, RASU<rasu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello All,

I have a 9406-170 that was sitting idle for over 3 years.
Upon trying to restart - it IPL'd in manual mode.
After 3 IPL's it would no longer come up far enough for Terminal access.
Code 675A3200
System Time& Date were messed up when it did IPL fully so I replaced
both the Clock& Cache Batteries.
That fixed nothing.

I'm back to 675A3200 with display codes as follows:
Display Code
11-3 675A3200
12-3 00620117
13-3 00010100
14-3 000100FF
15-3 675A0002
16-3 00000000
17-3 00000000
18-3 00000000
19-3 04440000

I purchased some spare disks just in case.
I also have the V5R1 CD's.

ANY advice appreciated as I am currently dead in the water.

Thanks,
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