RE: linux on a 9406-520

There are SCSI drive that can be reformatted and some that can't, but all
the SAS drives can be.

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roberto José
Etcheverry Romero
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 1:01 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: linux on a 9406-520

I believe Dr Franken mentioned that only the SAS drives support that
reformatting option (haven't had the time to try yet).


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

Then you will need to reformat the drives as Roberto suggests. That
may not
be possible depending on how old the firmware is on the disk units. At
one
time there was a block to reformatting AIX drives to IBM i standards since
they were so much cheaper than the IBM i formatted drives. Same way visa
versa.

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Chief Technical Architect
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Draper
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 11:36 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: linux on a 9406-520

Thinking of a bare metal install.

Jerry

On 3/4/2014 8:48 AM, Mark S Waterbury wrote:

Hi, Jerry:

Does this "spare 520" have IBM i (i5/OS) installed and running on it
already? If so, it should be possible to use Operations Navigator or
STRSST to create a second partition and then load and run Linux in
that LPAR ...

Or, are you talking about trying to load Linux on "the bare machine"?

Mark S. Waterbury

> On 3/4/2014 12:56 AM, Jerome Draper wrote:

I have a spare 520 and thought I might load Linux up on it.

Anyone done this?

Links?

Jerry

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