On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Mike Ross <tmfdmike at gmail.com> wrote: I've waited 60+ minutes for a 9406-720 to start...it has a lot of spindles; AS/400s weren't intended to be switched-off. https://picasaweb.google.com/118247290269860741639/IBM9406720AS400?noredire… Kevin: the install is relatively straight-forward from what I remember, I don't recall any surprises (see the above gallery for a few screens of my install) - however applying the PTFs can be an exercise in endurance, especially from a base install since sets of PTFs required a reboot so after spending a day restarting you might have completed 6 or so PTF sets.

Did you install 2 hard disks with the specific as/400 firmware and geometry ? -----Messaggio originale----- Da: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] Per conto di Kevin Monceaux Inviato: venerd? 5 dicembre 2014 17:06 A: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Oggetto: Re: The 9406-270 Has Arrived!! Mike, I replied to you privately before noticing you'd also sent your reply to the list. I see private replies before list replies since mail from this list gets sorted into its own mailbox. I'll reply here too in case anyone else has any suggestions. If replying to the list there's no need to also send me a private reply. On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 04:43:50PM +1300, Mike Ross wrote: There is only one twinax card in my 270 and I only have one terminal connected which is connected to port 0. From the terminal under setup I checked and it shows it's set up as display 0. So the terminal is display 0 on port 0. I may just need to give it more time. I think with my first IPL attempt I let it run for over an hour. This is my first attempt at IPLing one of these boxes from CDROM so I have no idea how long it usually takes. At work I've only had the opportunity to IPL from DASD after the OS was installed, usually after full backups. -- Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.Lassie.xyz http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX What's the definition of a legacy system? One that works! Errare humanum est, ignoscere caninum.

On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 10:05:51AM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote: Well, I don't know if I accidentally did something to fix it or if it just needed more time. After a suggestion received via a private reply I tried to check the console setting via the front panel. Using the procedures I found online I never could get it to display anything that looked like the code that indicates the console setting. While I was in another room surfing the 'net for more console setting procedures the language code entry screen appeared on the twinax terminal. I'm up to the point of installing licensed internal code now. Well, actually it's initializing one of the disk drives. The eta it's giving for that task alone is two hours. -- Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.Lassie.xyz http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX What's the definition of a legacy system? One that works! Errare humanum est, ignoscere caninum.