IBM 9077 manual Installing the Pcmcia Spinning Disk

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4.Route the Ethernet twisted-pair cable between the SP Switch Router unit and the Ethernet hub, then connect the cable to the SP Switch Router control board and the Ethernet hub.

5.Verify that the SP CWS has a connection to this same Ethernet hub. If the SP CWS Ethernet adapter is configured by the system administrator, then a ping test from the SP CWS to the configured SP Switch Router Ethernet address should be done to test Ethernet connectivity.

Physical installation and minimal configuration are complete at this point.

Review Section 3.4, “Attaching SP Switch Router Cables” on page 79 before connecting the SP Switch Router Adapter card cables to the SP Switch ports specified for this configuration.

3.3.2 Installing the PCMCIA Spinning Disk

Your system is shipped with a PCMCIA disk that is required to collect the system log files. This disk can hold up to 520 MB of data regarding your model of the SP Switch Router.

You can install the disk any time after the SP Switch Router is powered on and running. Logging is not enabled until you install the disk and complete this configuration procedure. Logged messages might be very helpful while you are configuring media cards. The configuration is done only once to set up local logs and dumps, and is not affected by software updates or system reboots. System logs include: gritd.packets, grinchd.log, gr.console, gr.conferrs, gr.boot and mib2d.log.

The procedure formats and initializes an external flash (/dev/wdXa), where the X is normally a 1, denoting the number of the device. You get the actual number from the mountf command. We have /dev/wd3a in our example and this value will be used for the rest of this chapter. The procedure then mounts the flash temporarily on /mnt and creates subdirectories, symbolic links and a permanent site file for storing the symbolic links.

Proceed as follows:

1.Insert the PCMCIA disk into slot A on the SP Switch Router control board (the width of the disk requires it to be installed in slot A).

2.Log in as root to the SP Switch Router, start the UNIX shell, and execute the following commands from the shell:

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