steve@wakefieldrfc.freeserve.co.uk (Steve Nottingham) wrote in message news:<42862645.0309220507.52d06854@posting.google. com>...
> tsirakidis@gmx.de (Stavros Tsirakidis) wrote in message news:<d066a766.0309212331.5a0fb4be@posting.google. com>...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I bought a used B50 server that has no CDROM drive and no hard disks inside.
> > Could someone give me some tips:
> >
> > - first, I know that I can use a null modem cable and a common PC in order
> > to install the server. Anyway, I would like to ask, if it is possible to use
> > another PCI graphic adapter (like ATI, Matrox,...) instead of the IBM ones
> > (like GXT130P) ?
>
> It is not possible to use another graphics adapter unless AIX device
> drivers are included with it.
>
> >
> > - second, are the cables for the onboard SCSI adapters connectors the same
> > as the ones used with common SCSI adapters, like the ones from Adaptec ? If
> > not, I am thinking about using the external SCSI connector. In this case, I
> > would plug an external SCSI CDROM & hard disk. I hope that the boot from the
> > AIX CDs will work.
>
> Yes, SCSI is SCSI. You may need an IBM CD ROM drive to install AIX.
> You can check on the SMS menus to see if the hardware is recognised by
> the system.
>
> Steve

Hi folks,

I used a Plextor UltraPlex PX-32TSi SCSI CD-ROM drive with a B50.
Worked fine with 4.3.3 but the necessary device drivers did not come
with 5L. Thus after the upgrade to 5.2 the device is not found any
longer by cfgmgr and so the Plextor is unusable with this combination
of software and hardware. Therefore the answer for the second question
is likely to be "it depends...".

Regards,
Andreas