6 Jan
2021
6 Jan
'21
4:37 a.m.
Yes, I know about that and can confirm. What I
understood from your last posting is that once you reformat an AS/400 disk for 512 Bytes
per sector as used by commodity hardware, you can?t use it again on AS/400, even by
reformatting.
Yes, that's correct
And I doubt that there's an orderly shutdown from the panel... I remember being told
of only one procedure, but it would not cause damages/issues of sort. In any case
we're speaking about something that was meant to be turned on and never turned off
unless some maintenance or a big issue.
For scheduled maintenance, the qsecofr / admin account could issue a pwrdwnsys , and for a
catastrophe where the terminal is not accessible ... the panel does its job
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Hello,
Am 06.01.2021 um 02:04 schrieb mazzinia at tin.it:
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
Yes, I know about that and can confirm. What I understood from your last posting is that
once you reformat an AS/400 disk for 512 Bytes per sector as used by commodity hardware,
you can?t use it again on AS/400, even by reformatting.
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
This is *not* an orderly shutdown, but some kind of emergency shutdown procedure to
prevent excess damage through RAM content not yet flushed to disk. A bit like doing a
?sync? and immediate power off on Unix/Linux.
:wq! PoC