Re: Applying configuration from IPL "Type A" to "Type B" on AS/400 9406-170

Be somewhat careful. It's just three knobs but given "timing" being a factor, it could be easy to trigger something undesirable and unrepeatable. In turn possibly making it hard to guess what happened and how to revert it.

That would explain something weird that happened last week while trying to enable 65+21 I once (and only once) got a "0?" on the front panel, indicating the "Are you sure you want to proceed?" kind of question. I got scared as that wasn't suppose to happen so I canceled out.

Thanks, that helps. So just thtee cards. A 2723 Ethernet, and a 2721 (I think) dual serial controller (and in the middle probably something SCSI for the disks and other internal peripherals).

Anyway, the machine definitely has no Twinax controller. So Operations Console is the only way to go forward, without investing in a bunch of Twinax hardware (controller card, brick, cables, adapter, and finally a terminal with keyboard).

I've been looking at DSPHRWRSC and I believe this one is the twinax controller?

CTL01 6A59-001 Non rilevato Unità di controllo ter

It says "Not detected", not sure if it's referring to the controller, or the console itself.

Also not sure about that. But it has to do with console, somehow. It is mentioned in this documentation which might be(come) helpful for you:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.1?topic=information-determining-primary-alternative-consoles

One last bit of info is after IPL I get a A9002000 error on the front panel "If the system displays this SRC, it typically means that a console was not found by the IBM® i operating system."

At any rate, from what I gathered so far, I'm leaning towards finding and operations cable first, that sounds like the safest option.