RE: 5581 (5780) Installation - 2757 Cache Card

["Martin Spencer" <rackconfig@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thats great, thanks Pete.

Is it worth also using the option to flush the cache card in DST (Work with 
Disk Units, Disk Unit Recovery Procedures, then the there is an option in 
there) or should I leave that well alone and just go with a clean shutdown?



> message: 2
> date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 07:32:03 -0400
> from: "Pete Massiello" <pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: RE: 5581 (5780) Installation - 2757 Cache Card
>
> You always want to insure that the machine comes down clean, and I guess 
> the
> warnings are that the cache is properly flushed from the existing cards.
> That said, I usually do a ENDSBS *ALL first so that everything is ended, 
> and
> then do a PWRDWNSYS *CNTRLD with 180 seconds (this is just to make sure
> everything is written to disk, and gives system plenty of time to come
> down).  Then, I just installed the card (usually trying to keep the cards
> together) and put the cable from the 4th SCSI port (it's the furthest from
> you when u have inserted the card into a 5094 tower) on the card and that 
> is
> it.