Re: Twinax console refuses to give signon screen

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Pat.

There is only one twinax device on the entire system and the console is 
it.  No matter what I change the terminal to, both port-wise and 
address-wise, the the terminal won't come online.  The only reason I 
didn't think the 170's hardware was at fault was because I didn't see 
any errors listed anywhere.  And, I have tried two other 3476 terminals, 
changing ports and addresses, (and cables) and still no joy.

I did shutdown the 170 last night and I unplugged it for about 30 
minutes.  It didn't help.

I read up on some hardware diagnostics this morning and I think I'll try 
them tonight

Pete


Pat Barber wrote:

> That leaves a bad twinax adapter card. I have seen ports
> dropped before. It's rare, but it will happen. How many
> other devices are attached to port 0 ????
>
> Are all other ports "reporting in" with attached devices ???
>
> Have you attached the terminal and did a "cold start" IPL.
>
> This will often times correct small problems that might
> not be apparent during normal operations. You could
> have lost port 0 a while back and never noticed it if
> there are NO other devices attached to the port that would
> have failed.
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