RS/6000 580

From: Patrick Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Sat Jul 6 12:34:01 2002

On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Patrick Finnegan wrote:

> YAY! I've got it partially IPLing off of the drives that came out of my
> 55L. It seems to halt with a message of '552' - IPL Varyon falied. Does
> anyone know enough IBM-speak to tell me what that means?
>
> Aparently, the problem it was having earlier with powering off
> automagically was caused by the power supply thinking a fan was broken -
> once I fixed that problem, it magically started doing stuff again.
>
> I'm about to try booting in service mode with a set of diagnostic disks
> and see if I can figure anything else out.

OK, after booting off the first 'diagnostics disk', the system looks like
its booting - it clears for a second and then displays a few numbers, and
halts with 'c05' -- "A diskette error occurred" on the screen. I've
verified that the image is properly getting written to the floppy, and
have tried different floppies.

Any ideas?

-- Pat
Received on Sat Jul 06 2002 - 12:34:01 BST