Whoops, typo.

Make that a halt on c045.

And the system behaves properly and as expected with AIX 4.3.3.


newsposter@mn.rr.com (chuck) wrote in message news:<ef48d760.0310160632.6b0ffebf@posting.google. com>...
> hardware is "known good"; the H80 has current firmware, the 3153 and
> cable are also known good.
>
> The system will boot and start AIX 5.2 from the cd-rom, but will only
> run to the point of trying to find a console, then it hits the wall
> with a c046 which is 'cannot identify console hardware' and halts.
>
> This same media and consle has successfully updated (via a migration
> install) a half-dozen H70s so I'm wonering if there is something with
> the combination of this specific media and the H80 that has been
> identified.