Hi,
You know that it can get funny, if you restore the LIC from the DVD and then load the OS from tape with different levels ot the PTF's.
It's not mandatory that you will encounter an issue but according to IBM you can have an unsupported configuration.
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 1:48 PM -0700, "Evan Harris" <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi guys
I am currently doing a build of a new test system for a customer and having
a few hiccups along the way.
The machine I am using is a new Power 8 S824 6. It has a TS2900 tape
library with HH LTO6 attached to a 57B4 SAS adapter. It is intended to run
the IBM i Operating system (no VIOS)
The problems I am having are around getting the tape drive visible. It is
not supported as an ALT-IPL device as far as I can tell from the IBM docs.
That's OK, I half expected that and have a V7R1 DVD to boot from which
according to me is resave level RS-710-N so V7R1 TR10. Despite that I can't
seem to get the tape library visible as an alternate installation device
either after booting from DVD.
The library is currently set to sequential mode as an autoloader.
I have an option 21 save from the customer test system and at this point
what I am thinking about doing is installing LIC form the DVD and then
installing Base OS from DVD as well. After that I will do the rest of the
recovery from Tape and then go back and reload/re-apply all the PTFs.
Anybody got any other suggestions as to what I missed or what I can try ?
If the config is not quite supported that's OK, I'd just like to know
that;s the case (haven't been able to track down a definitive IBM doc as
yet) - I didn't do the config I just got sent out to make it work....
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