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On Friday 14 September 2007, Lamar Owen wrote:
Whew. As typical, you have thoroughly thought through things. Let me see if the beast will power up and whether the OS/2 console processor comes up before we make too many plans, though. And, as I mentioned, it is a SMALL s390; but it is the genuine article, Model 3006. As I said, a little box. Its usability will depend entirely upon whether the disks are wiped or not, I would think; but it does still have the disks, at least. A few 18.2GB units, IIRC.
Ok, my curiosity got the best of me, and so I ran a couple of 208 power cords over to the 3006, hooked up a PS/2 keyboard, mouse, and monitor, and booted the rig. OS/2 comes up just fine, and the P390 tools are all there. Hmm, I get an SSA event; ah, one of the three 18.2GB drives is bad, apparently, and the SSA RAID5 is running in degraded mode. Anybody got an IBM 21L3335 18.2GB SSA hard disk assembly, or know anything about such a beast? If my Torx drivers were here I'd pop the top on the drive shell and see what kind of drive it really is, and see if I have something compatible lying around.
The P390 IPL's OK, but my ignorance of the Integrated Server environment is showing, as I'm pretty clueless about getting a console. Oh, and the config is password-protected; have to figure out how to get around that. The PSW windows runs, increments, and I see pretty color bars; for whatever that's worth.
In any case, I shut down the P390 with the provided tool, and shut down OS/2.
The beast boots; but it will need a drive (it has several empty bays that could take SSA drives, too, if someone had some that wanted to part with them).
There are what appears to be two ESCON cards; one has a large DB connector; 50 pins or more, and the other has a duplex fiber connector; looks like FDDI.