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About This Book
This book provides information for technical personnel who are responsible for planning for a system
installation.
This book assumes that the service technician has had training on systems and attached SSA disk drive
subsystems.
ISO 9000
ISO 9000 registered quality systems were used in the development and manufacturing of this product.
Highlighting
The following highlighting conventions are used in this book:
Bold Identifies commands, subroutines, keywords, files, structures, directories, and other items
whose names are predefined by the system. Also identifies graphical objects such as buttons,
labels, and icons that the user selects.
Italics Identifies parameters whose actual names or values are to be supplied by the user.
Monospace Identifies examples of specific data values, examples of text similar to what you might see
displayed, examples of portions of program code similar to what you might write as a
programmer, messages from the system, or information you should actually type.
Online Publications
RS/6000 and pSeries publications are available online. To access the online books, visit our Web site at:
http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/resource/hardware_docs/
References to AIX Operating System
This document may contain references to the AIX operating system. If you are using another operating
system, consult the appropriate documentation for that operating system.
This document may describe hardware features and functions. While the hardware supports them, the
realization of these features and functions depends upon support from the operating system. AIX provides
this support. If you are using another operating system, consult the appropriate documentation for that
operating system regarding support for those features and functions.
Related Publications
The following catalogs and publications provide information on systems and related products:
v Adapters, Devices and Cable Information for Micro Channel Bus Systems , order number SA23-2764,
gives information about adapters and devices as well as detailed information about cables and cabling
used with Micro Channel Bus Systems.
v Adapters, Devices and Cable Information for Multiple Bus Systems , order number SA23-2778, gives
information about adapters and devices as well as detailed information about cables and cabling used
with Multiple Bus Systems.
v AIX Asynchronous Communications Guide provides information about asynchronous communications.
v
Diagnostics Information for Micro Channel Bus Systems , order number SA23-2765 contains common
diagnostic procedures, error codes, service request numbers, and failing function codes to help
diagnose and repair system problems. This manual is intended for trained service technicians.
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