DEDICATED HOBBYIST ALERT: IBM AS/400 9406-F2 for cheap sale in Germany

Yeh, I know for a fact you cannot setup Hdds for an as/400 unless with the ibm factory tool. ( saw people using AS for a lot of years professionally discuss this ) You had an as400, you had to buy the spares hdds sold by ibm and ibm only About the panel ... let me see... Press 1 time "arrow up" to get 02 on the display Press "insert" > panel will show "02 BN" Press 4 times "arrow up" so that it changes to "02 BM" Press 2 times the white power on button, to start the shutdown/poweroff phase -----Original Message----- From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Patrik Schindler via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 12:11 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: DEDICATED HOBBYIST ALERT: IBM AS/400 9406-F2 for cheap sale in Germany Hello, Am 05.01.2021 um 23:33 schrieb mazzinia--- via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>: Yap. See here for details (and further reading). https://try-as400.pocnet.net/wiki/Ordinary_Harddisks_on_the_AS/400 Do you have experience with this? Because, you certainly can format a disk in the ?BIOS? (Dedicated Service Tools) of a machine. And I suppose that doing this is doing the right thing. I know no safe way to initiate a proper shutdown from the panel. Do you have more information on that? I guess it?s included, eventhough not mentioned in the text. And I fully agree, Console is important to have. :wq! PoC