Re: using pSeries drive in iSeries

[Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

AFAIK it was a difference in firmware, the same that made it
impossible to use p or i drives in normal scsi controllers (bah, out
of 15 pseries drives only 4 worked for me, but put them in a pseries
and ALL were good).
When the system detects the drive as 6600 IT IS NOT GOING TO WORK
i encountered the 6600 problem when i put 15k drives in a 820.

Best regards,

Roberto

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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