it... one may be liked and another no, depending on the
>>> tape
>>> firmware. Same consideration goes for booting from such tape drive.
>>>
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Oggetto: Re: IBM AS400 questions
Made some progress with the AS400. Looks like one of the hard drives has
failed, it stated that if another disk fails then there could be a loss of
data.
Plan was to back up the
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> Oggetto: Re: IBM AS400 questions
>
> Made some progress with the AS400. Looks like one of the hard drives has
> failed, it stated that if another disk fails then there could b
h tape drive.
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Oggetto: Re: IBM AS4
Made some progress with the AS400. Looks like one of the hard drives has
failed, it stated that if another disk fails then there could be a loss of
data.
Plan was to back up the system to a couple of 8GB QIC tapes, however
looking at my tapes they turned out to be only QIC525 MB tapes, and are
Hi Devin
Have you subscribed to MIDRANGE-L ? http://lists.midrange.com/
They might help you out. Also, if you would document your findings I
would be very greatful. I have a model 170 on my todo-list.
/P
On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 12:21:17PM -0400, devin davison via cctalk wrote:
> Alright, it
On 04/09/2017 12:21 PM, devin davison via cctech wrote:
> Any advice on what to do from here is much appreciated. I just want to get
> the thing backed up and rest assured that if the drives fail i can
> reinstall the os and it have its license.
>
> --Devin
>
Assuming that you have tape to
Thanks for the info. I was worried that I needed special disks, these ones
are holding up for now.
my machine has a drive for 4/8gb tapes. I have never seen such a drive on a
machine till this one. I am used to DDS DLT and LTO tapes.
Unfortunately, what i thought was a nice new 4gb ibm branded
Devin,
The backup command is 'savsys'. The commands on on AS/400 are usually
three letter abbreviations for in the command mashed together savsys =
'save system' or 'work with user profiles' is 'WRKUSRPRF' and the
shutdown command 'Power Down System' is 'PWRDWNSYS'. If you type in the
Alright, it was quite a while back that I picked up my ibm AS400 model 170.
I had asked some questions on the list, it was locked with a password and i
could not get into the machine. I finally got around to getting into the
machine and am at the main menu. Before i do anything, I want to back up
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