Re: Model 40S twin-ax device limit

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:28 AM 6/28/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Just a quick question for the experts out there:
>
>What is the limit of twinax devices on a Model 40S?
>
>A client has a customer with a Model 40S. They currently have 4 twinax
>workstations and 1 twinax printer. They say that if they try to add
>another twinax device, they do not get a signon screen unless they power
>off one of the other devices.
>
>I only have this info second-hand, but I am assured that it is not
>simply an address conflict. Someone supposedly remembers the vendor they
>bought the system from mentioning a limit of 5 twinax devices. It was my
>impression that the minimum amount of twinax devices on ANY AS/400 other
>than the P01/P02 portables was 14.

You probably need to look at this a little closer.  The limit for twin-ax
workstations on all server models is 7.  If the device supports multiple
sessions via the 'jump' key, this counts as the number of sessions.
However, if the device supports 'shared addressing' (3489's do, and
possibly some new models of the 3488) and if shared addressing is
configured, they count as 1.

Printers, supposedly do not count.

My 40S has five configured twin-ax workstations, and five configured printers.

The server models do ugly things when you attempt to vary on the eight
twin-ax workstations, like arbitrarily varying of any other workstation.
All in all, the implementation was not crisp.



Al Barsa, Jr. - Account for Midrange-L
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