Re: Twinax console refuses to give signon screen - Saga Continues

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Bryan.  I was thinking about that option. I'll just have to 
rummage around and see if I can find the cable.  However, I have never 
used ops console so I am sure there are plenty of "gotcha's" there as well.

Pete

Bryan Dietz wrote:

> maybe if the twinax side of thecard is bad you could use operation console 
> cable and use the ECS(comm) part for the console connection.
>
> just have to get a cable.
>
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> _____________________________
> Bryan Dietz 
> Aktion Associates 
>
>
> midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/04/2006 06:08:27 PM:
>
> -> Still looking for my wrap plug so I can test the card but I am 
> -> suspicious now of the card itself.  Unfortunately I can't get the TCP 
> or 
> -> Telnet services to start so right now I am dead stick with this 170. 
> -> Fortunately this is NOT a production box.  On a whim, I dragged my 
> -> little E02 out and connected the cable and console to it.  It came up 
> -> (after about 45 minutes).  I get a signon screen and can log into it so 
>
> -> I KNOW that the cable and terminal are A-OK.  I re-seated the card in 
> -> the 170 but no joy...
> -> 
> -> First question for anyone familiar with console issues on the list:  Is 
>
> -> there any configuration problem that would prevent the console from 
> -> coming online at IPL?  Somewhere in the bowels of this machine could 
> -> there be a setting that is hosing up the console (I am currently 
> IPL'ing 
> -> from CD to try to eliminate any possibility of a config issue but...)
> -> 
> -> Question #2 : Any other ideas?  This is really strange and if it is a 
> -> hardware failure it is the first one I have experienced in the 10 or so 
>
> -> years I have owned an AS/400 / iSeries / System i.
> -> 
> -> Question #3: The card is a 2720 (ESC and console) .  Anybody have one 
> of 
> -> these laying around that I could borrow until I know for sure the one I 
>
> -> have is toast?  I'd like to try a replacement card and if it works I'll 
>
> -> go to eBay and by a permanent replacement.
> -> 
> -> Thanks.
> -> 
> -> Pete Helgren
>