Re: using pSeries drive in iSeries

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

the AS/400 & iSeries used a different sized sector  (think iSeries
used 528 and pSeries used 512)..

Obviously something's different now with POWER5 and higher...

But your 270 is older...

IIRC, there was a way to reformat the pSeries drive for use in an
iSeries..but a quick google search didn't turn up anything...

Charles


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Steve Richter
<stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> trying to boot an iSeries 270 from a single 36GB pSeries drive.
>
> IBM 36GB 10K eSERVER pSERIES USCSI HARD DRIVE 09P4444
>
> get as far as the DST menu.   From the initialize and format disk units
> option, the drive shows up as "non configured".
>
> after f10=confirm initialize and format, get an error:
>
>  "the system encounered an error while it was attempting to read or write to
> a disk unit"
>
> shows the drive as:
> type 6600  model 030  resource name DPH001  reference code I/O processor
> 0000  device 0000
>
> here is a link that appears to say pSeries drives use 528 byte sectors same
> as iSeries.
>
> Is it possible to use pSeries drives in an iSeries?
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