Re: B20003200 -- MIDRANGE-L

Good to know it's coming back up. Still baffles me tough how they didn't
know the easy way to clear the card... (i repeat it for the archives):
Create a new profile for the LPAR, with only the IOP and IOA that you want
to clear (plus whatever is needed for Dtype IPL). remove (just take them
out 1cm) all disk drives on that IOA (just to be safe). IPL from CD, do the
"recover cache card" (i dont have the menu option in english, i usually
work on spanish machines) step, shutdown the LPAR, reseat all drives and
activate the other profile. It should work (i mean, if another controller
works, then clearing that controller should have worked without having to
wait for another).

Good luck, and let's hope no more surprises arise.
Roberto

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Smith, Mike <Mike_Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Well the second replacement card did the trick. IPLing now.

Come to find out that the first replacement controller was 'field
resealed' - indicating someone used it to try to fix a problem but didn't
end up replacing the part in that system. I have to question why IBM would
have sent controller out in that state (dirty cache). Talked to the tech
some more. He said it was coming up with a cache warning and that it was
requesting that the ASP be cleared. What wasn't relayed to me, was that
support has a way of tricking it into thinking that the ASP was cleared and
wasn't. I think there was going to be some more steps to clear the cache.

Without knowing the 'back door trick', I was going to suggest putting the
'dirty cache card into my system programmer's 'playground' LPAR and let
that LPAR take the hit. Swap the card back to the LPAR needed it after the
cache wasdumped. Not sure if that would have wokred but it would have been
worth a shoot.. not to have to restore one of my primary partition.

Anyway, thanks for the input. I know, I wasn't given all the best
information today and not being in the data center to get more information
than the SRC codes flipping by was a bit frustrating.

Thanks again,
Mike.

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