Re: Tape IPL failure
Bobby, I'm glad you got past your issue, I'm surprised you received both tape and DVD for install... One question after you get z/VM installed can you test that tape again. Just to see if it was a tape issue. regards Phil Tully Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: We gave up on the tape IPL and did the install from DVD. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Bill Munson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:42 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Tape IPL failure Bobby, I am on my way out the door soon, but a couple of quick questions. Are you using the integrated 3270 console for your installation? Is the tape drive online to that LPAR? Are the packs online to that LPAR? On the LOAD panel did you use the Load address of your tape drive? Did you use a Load parameter of CNSLSCLP or SYSG ? good luck Bill Munson VM System Programmer Office of Information Technology State of New Jersey (609) 984-4065 President MVMUA http://www.marist.edu/~mvmua Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: Hi list, we just received our z/VM trial tape and are having a bit of a problem IPLing it. We have a z9 BC machine with an IFL. When we IPL the tape we get either a device or controller busy message or a timeout message. We made sure the devices and chpds for the tape was offline to the other systems. There are 4 z/OS lpars running on the machine utilizing the 3 general purpose engines. The tape and dasd are shared. We made sure the tape was OK by running FATAR from the same drive we were trying to IPL from. Any suggestions? Thanks Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -- 'in media stat virtus' Virtue's in the middle
Re: Tape IPL failure
I only asked for a tape but both showed up! Good though about trying to read the tape later. I'll give that a try even though we did run a fatar on the tape with no problems. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Phil Tully [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 12:38 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Tape IPL failure Bobby, I'm glad you got past your issue, I'm surprised you received both tape and DVD for install... One question after you get z/VM installed can you test that tape again. Just to see if it was a tape issue. regards Phil Tully Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: We gave up on the tape IPL and did the install from DVD. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Bill Munson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:42 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Tape IPL failure Bobby, I am on my way out the door soon, but a couple of quick questions. Are you using the integrated 3270 console for your installation? Is the tape drive online to that LPAR? Are the packs online to that LPAR? On the LOAD panel did you use the Load address of your tape drive? Did you use a Load parameter of CNSLSCLP or SYSG ? good luck Bill Munson VM System Programmer Office of Information Technology State of New Jersey (609) 984-4065 President MVMUA http://www.marist.edu/~mvmua Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: Hi list, we just received our z/VM trial tape and are having a bit of a problem IPLing it. We have a z9 BC machine with an IFL. When we IPL the tape we get either a device or controller busy message or a timeout message. We made sure the devices and chpds for the tape was offline to the other systems. There are 4 z/OS lpars running on the machine utilizing the 3 general purpose engines. The tape and dasd are shared. We made sure the tape was OK by running FATAR from the same drive we were trying to IPL from. Any suggestions? Thanks Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -- 'in media stat virtus' Virtue's in the middle
Re: Tape IPL failure
We gave up on the tape IPL and did the install from DVD. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Bill Munson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:42 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Tape IPL failure Bobby, I am on my way out the door soon, but a couple of quick questions. Are you using the integrated 3270 console for your installation? Is the tape drive online to that LPAR? Are the packs online to that LPAR? On the LOAD panel did you use the Load address of your tape drive? Did you use a Load parameter of CNSLSCLP or SYSG ? good luck Bill Munson VM System Programmer Office of Information Technology State of New Jersey (609) 984-4065 President MVMUA http://www.marist.edu/~mvmua Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: Hi list, we just received our z/VM trial tape and are having a bit of a problem IPLing it. We have a z9 BC machine with an IFL. When we IPL the tape we get either a device or controller busy message or a timeout message. We made sure the devices and chpds for the tape was offline to the other systems. There are 4 z/OS lpars running on the machine utilizing the 3 general purpose engines. The tape and dasd are shared. We made sure the tape was OK by running FATAR from the same drive we were trying to IPL from. Any suggestions? Thanks Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474
Re: Tape IPL failure
Bobby, I am on my way out the door soon, but a couple of quick questions. Are you using the integrated 3270 console for your installation? Is the tape drive online to that LPAR? Are the packs online to that LPAR? On the LOAD panel did you use the Load address of your tape drive? Did you use a Load parameter of CNSLSCLP or SYSG ? good luck Bill Munson VM System Programmer Office of Information Technology State of New Jersey (609) 984-4065 President MVMUA http://www.marist.edu/~mvmua Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: Hi list, we just received our z/VM trial tape and are having a bit of a problem IPLing it. We have a z9 BC machine with an IFL. When we IPL the tape we get either a device or controller busy message or a timeout message. We made sure the devices and chpds for the tape was offline to the other systems. There are 4 z/OS lpars running on the machine utilizing the 3 general purpose engines. The tape and dasd are shared. We made sure the tape was OK by running FATAR from the same drive we were trying to IPL from. Any suggestions? Thanks Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474