Re: I AM IRONMAN!

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

 Was there more than one SCSI cable to the board?  It's way cool when 
you get them back on there in the wrong order. The system appears to 
operate normally (ok actually it does) but when you finally lose a drive 
the thing has them in the wrong place because of the cable switch.  So 
if you use the GUI to find the dead one and don't pay attention to the 
blinking light when you go to pull it you can crater the machine!! (By 
causing a second failure in the RAID set.)  No I didn't do this but I 
was wondering why the light in the cage below was blinking instead of 
the one I expected.  Checking serial numbers proved the theory and we 
got a good laught at the IBM CE's expense!!

And Scott, would this qualify as a 'Stupid DST Trick??'

  - Larry (aka Dr. Franken)

Ingvaldson, Scott wrote:

> Congrats, Joe.  Next you'll be working on a FrankenSeries!
>
> Here's a trick that will impress your friends:
>
> STRSST
> 1. Start a service tool
> 4. Display/Alter/Dump
> 1. Display/Alter storage
> 1. Machine Interface (MI) object
> 8. User profile (08)
> 1. Find by object name 
> Type your user profile, then <enter> twice.
> 1. Hexadecimal, alter capable
>
> On the third line down (0020) the first character is an 8.  If you change it
> to an A the profile is marked as damaged.  It will work as normal until the
> next IPL, and then be blown away.
>
> In the CISC days at IBM, when we couldn't get a device to vary off we would
> damage it this way and then IPL and let it auto create.  Haven't had to do
> it in a long time though....
>
> Have a good one,
>
> Scott
>
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