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

[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

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


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Hello,

Am 05.01.2021 um 23:33 schrieb mazzinia--- via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>:

> The hard disks are factory initialized with a specific number of sectors...
> they are scsi, and you cannot use normal scsi disks there.

Yap. See here for details (and further reading).

https://try-as400.pocnet.net/wiki/Ordinary_Harddisks_on_the_AS/400

> the only way to initialize them for an as/400 is with an ibm tool that has never been released.


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.

> and yes, you can otherwise use the small panel on the front to ipl it 
> up, and shut it down

I know no safe way to initiate a proper shutdown from the panel. Do you have more information on that?

> You can add more twinax terminals ( the cables are included ), or 
> connect to a twinax card in a pc ( isa/pci , depends what you find ) 
> and ibm client access... or client access on lan.
> In any case you need that ( or a ) twinax terminal (emulator card 
> works) for maintenance/admin duties

I guess it’s included, eventhough not mentioned in the text. And I fully agree, Console is important to have.

:wq! PoC