Re: LPAR Optical requirement

["Larry Bolhuis" <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Internal to the CEC DVDs and CDs are not switchable (*UNLESS 
www.frankeni.com.)  You would have to have one external Optical drive on a 
switchable IOP/IOA combination and then you could create partitions. Add a 
2844 with a 5712 to your configuration as switchable and then SPT will let 
you move on. Of course it is assuming you're connecting a DVD drive to 
that 5712.

  - Larry
 
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> Not dedicated but available. That is one optical drive for the physical 
> system is required and it can be switched between LPARs as needed. This 
> rule has not changed.
>
>  - Larry

Okay.  I'll bite.  I have a model 800 that appears capable of LPAR.  When 
I used the system 
planning tool it got mad when I only had one Optical.  How would I tell it 

that is switchable?
Are there only certain Optical models that allow that to happen?
.