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Well, I just worked this out, and thought anyone else looking at this would want to know too. We didn't promote the firmware to the A side on the 7017's. We then deleted the firmware files, which includes promotion.img (or something similar). Apparently, the promotion.img file you get with...

Yes they do, if you promote the firmware before deleting the files. Apparently, for the promotion, you need a file created during the original update. You can't just promote B to A without having that file. I was new to AIX when I did the original firmware update. I know better now. Anyone...

We're upgrading the firmware on our AIX machines. We have 2 7017 S85's, a 7026-6H1 and a 7026-H80. We are going to upgrade the OS to AIX 5.2, so we need to update teh firmware. Of course, we didn't keep the old binaries of the firmware from before. We don't need it yet, but to be safe, I'd...

No problems on the 5701 installation. Diags ran fine. The only thing that was odd was when we did the diag with the wrap plug, it only ran the 10 and the 100 tests. The internal test did all 3 (10/100/1000). Tim

We're doing the install today. I'll let you know if I run into anything. Tim

Thanks for that. That's what I assumed, but I had to be sure. Especially since I told them I specifically wanted the 5701 instead of the 5700 (based on talking with IBM support, and our application vendor). What confused me was that the IBM install guide says: The 10/100/1000 Base-TX...

We're installing 10/100/1000 NIC cards on a few machines. The install guide says that AIX 5L for POWER version 5.1.35 with ML 03 or later is a pre-req. For the dual port card, the pre-req is AIX 5L for POWER version 5.1.0 ML 04 or later. I always refered to our OS as AIX 5.1 ML06 (from...

Rod (or anyone else who can answer this), I've got a script now that works. I don't quite understand what that statement is specifically doing. Also, since I want to use double quotes (to use a variable), it doesn't work the way it was intended. This command: datapath query device | awk '(...

Thanks for that. I obviously don't know awk well enough.

Hi all, I hope someone can help me with this. I've never been able to do this, and it would be very helpful now. I need this script to give me the serial number of a known vpath. My problem, is the vpath I can grep for, is on one line, but the SERIAL #, is on the line below it. I need to...

We have issues like this a lot. Usually ends up that the port on the switch is mis-matched from the machine (either Unix server or PC). Our machines are 100M Full, but the network is usually set to auto-negotiate. Transfers are always slow and we get a bunch of errors. Once our network guys...

Another question on the cpu speed... With these machines, do all the cpu's have to be the same speed? So, for the Processor Clock Speed value from prtconf, is that for all the cpu's? Thanks Tim

Looks like you already have your answer, but we also have a 3494 directly connected with FC, so it will work. Tim

Thanks, I will try that. Something else I just noticed. It only slows down if I have su'd to root. When I do a "w" from my normal user, it responds quickly. Also, the users with the idle sessions are coming in from a PC using Exceed. They don't think they have open sessions any longer. I...

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks Tim

This has been bugging me for a while. Whenever a user is idle for a while (not sure how long, this time over an hour), the response to the "w" command is very slow. If I kill their session, it runs fast like normal. Anyone know why this is? Here's an example: I added the line numbers to...

We just migrated our production servers from AIX 4.3.3 to 5.1. It worked ok on the test machines, but we had a severe problem on production. We've not been able to figure out what happened (nor has IBM). Here's our systems, a timeline of events, and the problem will follow. 2 7017-S85's in...

Thanks for that. I will talk to EMC. I may be off base with this, but don't you need the SDD to talk to the ESS, therefore, you can't boot off the ESS until the OS is up and the SDD started? I'd think it would take a pretty good rework for that. Then again, I'd be way out of my league...

Thanks Yegolev. Do you, or does anyone, know of any documentation for this? Last time I read, IBM still said to not have primary paging on external disks, which would rule out rootvg on EMC. I've also seen where people are doing this, but I don't want to risk any support from IBM or the...

Can you use an EMC device as a boot device? Basically, it would contain rootvg and primary paging. I've always been told this was a bad idea. We are getting some new machines, and "they" want to do this. So, does IBM now support and approve of this? If not, why? Thanks Tim