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Well I can say this with certainty, I have loaded IBM i 7.2 from TS2900
with a FC #57B4 adapter on a POWER8. I have loaded IBM i 7.2 from TS2900
onto a Power6 even but with an older adapter.
The tape needs to be loaded into the tape drive from the front panel. On
these newer drives I've never had to switch to sequential or library mode
just have the drive loaded.
Do you have an HMC attached?
- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
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www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.
On 7/14/2015 8:46 PM, Evan Harris wrote:
Hi Larry
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It is attached to the bottom port. I had an Alt-D IPL going for a good
hour
with nothing happening - just stuck on the same SRC (C200 4150 I think,
but
don't quote me on that)
I may have misunderstood something, but this page seemed to indicate the
TS2900 couldn't be used for an Alt-IPL with the card I am using to attach
it:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20Removable%20Media%20on%20IBM%20i/page/IBM%20i%20Tape%20and%20optical%20on%20Power%208
"*Note: *SAS tape library devices are not supported, with the exception of
TS2900 in sequential mode, when attached using a VIOS partition."
Re-reading that I think it could be saying that SAS tape libraries are not
supported by VIOS except for the TS2900 in sequential mode, though I
originally read it the other way (i..e TS2900 not supported)
If it is supported it sure is doing it's best not to work. I really can't
think what else to check/change. Normally these things are simple...
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:26 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Which port is the tape drive attached to? It needs to be the bottom port.
There is no reason the TS2900 isn't a valid alt-IPL device.
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www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.
On 7/14/2015 6:51 PM, Evan Harris wrote:
Yeah I am aware of that. The LIC level is basically the same as the OS
on
the tape and I will be re-applying all the required PTF's so I should beThis is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing
OK.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:43 AM, <tsetso.marinov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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Evan Harris
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