Re: using pSeries drive in iSeries

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Short answer: No. :-)

IBM Has blocked those feature codes from being used in the any iSeries 
or Power5 machines. Once you get to POWER6 then the drives can be 
reformatted and used between AIX and IBM i.

You will also get the type 6600 if you put in iSeries drives that are 
not supported in the 270 frame (such as the 15K RPM units for example.)  
If the FC of the drive isn't on the 'approved list' it's not usable.

In case you try, the same is true with memory.  Only in the memory case 
if it's the correct technology just not an iSeries feature it actually 
reports in with the correct feature codes (Yeah!) but with 0MB (Boo.)

    - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

On 10/14/2011 11:45 AM, Steve Richter 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?