Re: USB Optical on Power 7+ V7R1

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'd suggest copying the images to RDX media.

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 11:56 AM, Jim Franz <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How to tell what capacity limits there are for saving files (image files)
> to a USB for V7R1.
> I've read multiple docs (IBM and others) - some mention a 32gb limit others
> don't.
> IBM doc
> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/
> wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20Removable%20Media%20on%
> 20IBM%20i/page/Attaching%20USB%20Flash%20Drives%20to%20IBM%20i
> has a comment from user at end "For USB 3.0 devices the 32GB max capacity
> restriction was removed with 7.2 PTF MF63610 and 7.3 PTF MF63611".
>
> The current 7.1 to 7.2 ptf cross reference has no 7.1 version of MF63610.
>
> We need to move 4.6TB of images (approx. 1 million) to diff kind of system
> (unix or win) across the country and our network people won't let us xmit
> that much. We did get approved to use USB..
> Other option is to copy to local win...
>
> Jim Franz
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