Re: Power 8 Installation Issue

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Which port is the tape drive attached to? It needs to be the bottom 
port.  There is no reason the TS2900 isn't a valid alt-IPL device.

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On 7/14/2015 6:51 PM, Evan Harris wrote:

> Yeah I am aware of that. The LIC level is basically the same as the OS on
> the tape and I will be re-applying all the required PTF's so I should be
> OK.
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> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:43 AM, <tsetso.marinov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > You know that it can get funny, if you restore the LIC from the DVD and
> > then load the OS from tape with different levels ot the PTF's.
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> > It's not mandatory that you will encounter an issue but according to IBM
> > you can have an unsupported configuration.
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> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > Sent by Outlook for Android
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> >
> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 1:48 PM -0700, "Evan Harris" <
> > auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
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> >
> > Hi guys
> >
> > I am currently doing a build of a new test system for a customer and having
> > a few hiccups along the way.
> >
> > The machine I am using is a new Power 8 S824 6. It has a TS2900 tape
> > library with HH LTO6 attached to a 57B4 SAS adapter. It is intended to run
> > the IBM i Operating system (no VIOS)
> >
> > The problems I am having are around getting the tape drive visible. It is
> > not supported as an ALT-IPL device as far as I can tell from the IBM docs.
> >
> > That's OK, I half expected that and have a V7R1 DVD  to boot from which
> > according to me is resave level RS-710-N so V7R1 TR10. Despite that I can't
> > seem to get the tape library visible as an alternate installation device
> > either after booting from DVD.
> >
> > The library is currently set to sequential mode as an autoloader.
> >
> > I have an option 21 save from the customer test system and at this point
> > what I am thinking about doing is installing LIC form the DVD and then
> > installing Base OS from DVD as well. After that I will do the rest of the
> > recovery from Tape and then go back and reload/re-apply all the PTFs.
> >
> > Anybody got any other suggestions as to what I missed or what I can try ?
> >
> > If the config is not quite supported that's OK, I'd just like to know
> > that;s the case (haven't been able to track down a definitive IBM doc as
> > yet) - I didn't do the config I just got sent out to make it work....
> >
> > --
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> > Regards
> > Evan Harris
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