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Operating Systems AIX model 43P 7248 Recovery! Post 302326376 by dukessd on Wednesday 17th of June 2009 09:10:27 PM

06-17-2009

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Um, I don't think the 7248 has a LED display, or a service processor, or is supported by the diag cd / program, even SMS is not on-board and has to be loaded from a diskette.

The "Problem Solving and Troubleshooting in AIX 5L" gives them a brief mention.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245496.pdf

In recent years, the RS/6000 family has migrated to Peripheral Component
Interconnect (PCI) bus technology. Throughout the rest of this redbook,
machines of this type are referred to as PCI machines. Initial machines of this
type (7040 and 7248) did not have the three digit LED or three position key mode
switch of the previous MCA machines.

There are two RS/6000 models that do not have the capability to run AIX-based
diagnostics. These machines are 7020-40P and 7248-43P. To run diagnostics
on these models, you must have the SMS diskette for the machine.

In the 7020 and 7248
machine types, SMS is very important, because it is the only way of
diagnostically testing the machine due to the fact that AIX diagnostics are not
supported. On these two machines, SMS is loaded from the SMS diskette.

As previously mentioned in this chapter, there are two types of machines on
which it is not possible to run any form of AIX diagnostics. These machines are
7020-40P and 7248-43P.
The only method by which hardware tests can be run is by using the SMS
diskette that was shipped with the machine.

etc. etc.

So where can one get one of these "SMS diskettes that was shipped with the machine"?

If your boss does not have one then it looks like we stumble onward in the dark because I bet you cannot download a copy from IBM anymore, if you ever could.

Have you tried fsck to check for and possibly repair any damaged filesystems?

Sticking the drive in another system may well be your best bet.

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rwho

RWHO(1) 						    BSD General Commands Manual 						   RWHO(1)

NAME

     rwho -- who is logged in on local machines

SYNOPSIS

     rwho [-aHq]

DESCRIPTION

     The rwho command produces output similar to who(1), but for all machines on the local network.  If no report has been received from a machine
     for 11 minutes then rwho assumes the machine is down, and does not report the users last known to be logged into that machine.

     If a user hasn't typed to the system for a minute or more, then rwho reports this idle time.

     -a 	 Include all users.  By default, if a user hasn't typed to the system for an hour or more, then the user will be omitted from the
		 output.

     -H 	 Write column headings above the regular output.

     -q 	 ``Quick mode'': List only the names and the number of users currently logged on.  When this option is used, all other options are
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FILES

     /var/rwho/whod.*  information about other machines

SEE ALSO

     finger(1), rup(1), ruptime(1), rusers(1), who(1), rwhod(8)

HISTORY

     The rwho command appeared in 4.3BSD.

BUGS

     This is unwieldy when the number of machines on the local net is large.

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