Re: When it rains...

Hi Joe,

Yes you are totally ok to do the disk replacement from SST

I have done it and many Cache batteries that way.

As you said you will only need the twinax console DST or restricted state.

But you should also be able to configure a LAN Console.


Cheers



Don Brown
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From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 06/11/2020 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: When it rains...
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



I'm right by O'Hare airport. But maybe I don't need a loaner?

I'm wondering if it's safe to do the STRSST and rebuild over TCP/IP?
Then I just need to get a console for those rare cases when I have to
take the machine to restricted state.

On 11/5/2020 8:22 PM, smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Where are you located? Maybe someone nearby will read this and they can

dig one out of the storage closet and loan it to you.

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of

Joe Pluta

Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2020 8:13 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: When it rains...

Okay, so after the inadvertent reboot the system came up cleanly and I

have TCP/IP access (but of course no console). So here's the $64,000

question: can I do the disk swap now and reboot, and run STRSST over the

LAN? Should I? Because frankly it's looking like it will be difficult to
get a new console anytime soon. I may be able to borrow one, but even
that is difficult these days.

O Gurus of the List, what say you?

On 11/5/2020 6:14 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

So I get a message in QSYSOPR that a disk failed. Okay, no problem, I
have a spare. I should probably get a few more, but that's a
different story. So I go to flip on the operations console (an old
school twinax Infowindow) and... it beeps and then goes silent. Okay,
so now that's gone. Time to go to the backup. an old LynkLyte (with
the name SILVON0 taped to it). It also fails to turn on. I do a
snaity check of the power cord on an LCD monitor, it works fine. Now
I'm getting worried. I know I have the third string monitor in a
closet somewhere.... and now I know why it's in the closet. It powers
up, but the screen just shows a weird rolling line; clearly the
display card is fried.

So now I'm dead in the water. No monitor, can't get in and do an SST
to replace the drive. And to add insult to injury, I bumped the power
cord and killed the power momentarily, so in the middle of all this
the system is booting off an unprotected set of disks.

Anyway, I'm just putting this out to the group to see if anyone has
old twinax monitors that need a home. I found a couple on Ebay, but
they're not going to get here very quick. Sadly, I was unable to find
one on Amazon Prime. :)

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