Booting an older RS6000 off cdrom

From: Enrico Badella <enrico.badella_at_softstar.it>
Date: Tue Apr 24 14:49:49 2001

"Claude.W" wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I am in the process of finishing my spring cleanup and I am giving a RS6000
> 7012 320H powerserver its very last chance to see if I can get it to do
> anything usefull. I think I have mentionned this machine here before, still
> I am looking for some help on this.
>
> The machine is probably all ok. It was booting of the HDs with the original
> AIX when I got it and still will boot with the diags floppy disks for RS6000
> and I can "talk" to it from a terminal connected to the 1st serial
> port....The HDs were taken out a bit later and the machine was left sitting
> in a corner for a long time. Machine has 80 Megs RAM, SCSI card...the

WOW 80MB Ram, mine has only 32 :-(

> hardware is acting ok. I dont have the keyboard, graphics card or monitor so
> I am woking this thing from the terminal connected to the serial port.
>
> I have AIX on 2 cd's they say ENTRY SERVERS R4.2.1. I checked on my Linux
> box and the files are there and the cds are readable.

I tried all the cd players I had Matshita, Pioneer, Sony (ex Sun)
and even IBM. All on SCSI ID 6 512 bytes/sector none ever worked
except the Toshiba I pulled out of a RS6000 7013/59H. With this I
installed 4.2.1 then maye a mksysb tape.

I could never explain why the 320H is so picky about CDs

e.

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