Hello, Am 06.01.2021 um 02:04 schrieb [email protected]:
> 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 Yes, I know about that and can confirm. What I understood from your last posting is that once you reformat an AS/400 disk for 512 Bytes per sector as used by commodity hardware, you can’t use it again on AS/400, even by reformatting. > 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 This is *not* an orderly shutdown, but some kind of emergency shutdown procedure to prevent excess damage through RAM content not yet flushed to disk. A bit like doing a „sync“ and immediate power off on Unix/Linux. :wq! PoC
