I’m trying to rebuild a very old HMC 7315-C02 the hard disk has gone so needs replacing. I’ve managed to find an old IDE hard disk lying around but its obvious that it’s had windows running on it as the HMC install disks won’t recognise the format. I’m trying to install HMC V6 R1.2 and don’t get an option to format the hard disk before installing. Been thinking about installing a version of CentOS on the HMC just to format the disk, but would this work? Anybody got any bright ideas on how I can get out of this hole? Oh and the customer has done no sort of HMC backup ever on this box.
Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images General Motors’ 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray convertible on display at the New York auto show, which runs through April 7. Consumer interest in new cars has grown as the economy has slowly improved, fueling expectations of higher sales in March.
By DEE-ANN DURBIN
DETROIT — U.S. car and truck sales are expected to hit their highest level in nearly six years in March, as buyers armed with tax refund checks were lured by flashy new vehicles and low interest rates.
Auto companies release U.S. sales figures Tuesday.
Analysts predict total sales of nearly 1.5 million cars and trucks, a number not seen since May 2007. That’s almost double the 855,000 vehicles sold in March 2009, the low point for sales during the economic downturn, according to Ward’s AutoInfoBank. Sales are expected to be up 3 to 5 percent over last March.
Alec Gutierrez, a senior market analyst with the car pricing company Kelley Blue Book, said the improving job market is boosting sales. The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell to a five-year low during March. Low interest rates are also making new-car purchases more appealing, Gutierrez said. The average rate for a 60-month new-car loan is now 4.12 percent, down from 4.52 percent at this time last year, according to Bankrate.com.
And Gutierrez says tax refunds can also spur purchases. The average federal tax refund this year is nearly $3,000, or enough to cover the down payment on a three-year lease of a Toyota Camry hybrid or a BMW 3-Series sedan.
Full-size pickup truck sales are expected to rise nearly 15 percent in March, following big gains in February, Kelley Blue Book said. Construction companies are rapidly replacing their truck fleets as the economy improves and they win more business.
Gutierrez said incentive deals — such as the $7,500 cash back now offered for the Chevrolet Silverado pickup — are helping truck sales, and should continue for a while. General Motors Co. (Ford Motor Co. (GM wants to clear out older models before introducing its new Chevrolet Silverado in a few months.
"Consumers looking for a new pickup truck should not hesitate to pull the trigger," he said.
Crossovers are also gaining, thanks to redesigned models like the Ford Escape and Toyota RAV4. Small cars are down slightly, in part because gas prices are relatively low. Gas averaged $3.64 per gallon at the end of March, down from $3.78 at the end of February and $3.91 in March of 2012, according to AAA.
Honda Motor Co./AP Honda latest iteration of its Honda Odyssey, unveiled Wednesday at the New York auto show, includes a built-in vacuum cleaner on some models.
By DEE-ANN DURBIN
DETROIT — Stray Cheerios beware. The new Honda Odyssey minivan is here — and it has a built-in vacuum cleaner.
Honda Motor Co. (HMC) showed off its updated Odyssey minivan Tuesday evening ahead of the New York International Auto Show. The 2014 Odyssey — last redesigned in 2011 — has a richer, more chiseled look, chrome-trimmed fog lights and other premium features.
But HondaVAC, the hand-held vacuum integrated into the cargo area, will likely be its most talked-about feature. Honda says it’s the first to offer this family-friendly tool, which it developed with heavy-duty vacuum maker Shop-Vac. Honda’s system includes nozzle accessories and a hose that can reach every corner of the vehicle. It doesn’t need an outlet for recharging, and can work continuously when the motor is running — or for up to eight minutes when the van is turned off.
Honda says the vacuum will be standard on the most expensive version of the Odyssey, and it will announce availability on other versions later.
Tami Giammarco, lead engineer on the van’s interior, said the vacuum idea came from the daughter of an engineer who saw how frustrated her father was when kids made a mess in his van. “‘Dad, you need a vacuum in here,'” she told her father, Giammarco said.
Minivan sales could use a jolt. They peaked at 1.4 million in 2000, but have fallen rapidly since as buyers shifted to popular crossover wagons like the Honda CR-V and Toyota Motor Corp.’s (TM) RAV4. U.S. minivan sales totaled 540,188 last year.
Still, sales outpaced the industry average last year, and should grow even more this year when Ford Motor Co. (F) rolls out its first minivan since 2006, the Transit Connect Wagon. And if Generation Y buyers in their late 20s and early 30s choose a minivan as they start families, business could boom.
Honda is eager to be part of the action. So far this year, the Odyssey is the third-best selling minivan in the U.S., behind the Toyota Sienna and the Dodge Caravan. Excluding sales to fleet buyers such as rental car companies, Honda is No. 1, said Mike Acavitti, senior vice president of marketing for American Honda.
Acavitti said the minivan segment should keep growing because of its utility, and he expects Honda’s share of the market rise with the revamped Odyssey.
“There is no more flexible vehicle,” he said.
Here are more details about 2014 Odyssey:
Outside: Honda sharpened the Odyssey’s looks with a more sculpted hood, two-tone mirror housings and other details. It also improved the structure so that the van can get top …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
I have a couple of questions, I’m trying to do a mksysb restore from backup and it has just hung at the start.
Code:
RS/6000 Firmware
Version TCP05287
(c) Copyright IBM Corp. 2000 All rights reserved.
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LOAD: Waiting 60 seconds for Spanning Tree
BOOTP R = 1 BOOTP S = 1 FILE: /tftpboot/bsrs6d
Load Addr=0x4000 Max Size=0xbfc000
FINAL Packet Count = 16105 Final File Size = 8245686 bytes.
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Welcome to AIX.
boot image timestamp: 11:10 11/28
The current time and date: 15:40:43 03/21/2013
number of processors: 1 size of memory: 1024Mb
boot device: /pci@80000000/ethernet@c:10.11.2.9,,10.11.2.88,10.11.0.1,00,00
closing stdin and stdout...
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Anyone know why this is happening and how I can break out of it without someone going to power off the machine from the front panel. I’m logged on through the console cable and not the HMC unfortunately.
I have a p520 box running 3 LPARs, 1 x VIOS, 1 x AIX 6.1 and 1 x AIX 7.1 and no HMC, all configuration is performed via VIOS/IVM
Until recently the box did not have the AIX7.1 LPAR and everything was fine with the box.
We needed to use AIX 7.1 for a new project, so I created a new LPAR and configured it to share the non-VIOS resouces equally with the AIX6.1 LPAR. Everything seemed to go well and I was able to install AIX 7.1 successfully and start using that via PuTTy and FTP as required.
However, it seems that everytime we need to cold-boot the machine, the AIX7.1 LPAR looses visibility of the network. The VIOS and AIX6.1 LPARs remain fine with full network connectivity.
In my investigations so far I have found the following from the VIOSLPAR:
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$ lsdev
name status description
L2cache0 Available L2 Cache
VMLibrary Defined Logical volume
VMrootvg Defined Volume group
cd0 Available SATA DVD-RAM Drive
en0 Defined Standard Ethernet Network Interface
en1 Stopped Standard Ethernet Network Interface
en2 Defined Standard Ethernet Network Interface
en3 Defined Standard Ethernet Network Interface
en4 Defined Standard Ethernet Network Interface
en5 Defined Standard Ethernet Network Interface
en6 Available Standard Ethernet Network Interface
en7 Defined Standard Ethernet Network Interface
ent0 Available Logical Host Ethernet Port (lp-hea)
ent1 Available Logical Host Ethernet Port (lp-hea)
ent2 Available Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan)
ent3 ...read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at The UNIX and Linux Forums
Hundreds of thousands of cars made by major manufacturers have been recalled this year. The most outrageous of these is among the smallest. Chrysler recalled 4,459 Dodge Challenger V-6 models because their engines may actually catch on fire. The vehicles affected are 2013 models, and only 2,500 are on the road. The balance are held by dealers. The news shows just how wrong things can go with very modern cars, and that the risk of very dangerous cars, made dangerous by the car companies, continues to exist.
Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (NYSE: HMC) recently recalled 183,000 Pilot and Acura vehicles made in 2005 and 2006. These have a potentially dangerous brake defect. Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) recalled 209,000 FJ Cruiser models because of seat belt issues. Chrysler had another recall – much larger than the Challenger one – last month. This one involved 370,297 pickups and SUVs in which there could be rare axle problems. Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) recalled about 6,000 Escape, C-Max and Focus models because of possible child lock problems. And, at the luxury end of the market, where the cars sold should be nearly perfect, BMW recalled 75,000 cars because of electrical problems that could cause the vehicles to stall.
None of these recalls are related insofar as the parts of the cars or defaults measured. That means that the points of failure on very modern cars can be across a very broad spectrum. Consumers cannot take any comfort in this. Any and every part of their cars, SUVs, crossovers or pickups might be at risk. No matter how good quality control is supposed to be among large manufacturers, it fails to catch relatively basic flaws.
So far, there have been no major injuries among people in the cars recently called back to the dealers. But, as recalls proliferate, the companies and drivers may not be that lucky.
Market penetration and bad PR have taken down Hyundai and stablemate Kia, which until recently were the hottest brands in the U.S. market. As sales of competitors rise, the two manufactures will find it nearly impossible to keep pace. Their reigns as the darlings of the American car industry are over.
Hyundai sales rose only 2.3% to 96,024 in the first two months of this year, compared to an overall industry increase of 8.4%. Kia sales dropped 3.4% to 77,807 in the same period.
By contrast, sales of the industry leaders — General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM), Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) and Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) — all rose in the double digits. Chrysler’s sales were up 9.4% for the period.
One reason for the stagnation of Hyundai and Kia sales is likely the scandal over gas mileage claims. Car research firm Edmunds wrote in November:
Hyundai and Kia said they overstated the estimated fuel economy on about 900,000 2011-’13 vehicles, including the 2012 Hyundai Accent and 2012 Kia Soul.
The Korean companies will compensate owners for the inaccurate claims.
The EPA announced that its investigation into “inflated mileage claims” prompted the action by Hyundai and Kia.
Some models that the two companies sell face more competition from low- and mid-priced cars and light trucks. In the first two months of the year, Honda Motor Co. Ltd.’s (NYSE: HMC) Accord sales rose 51%. Ford Fusion sales rose 42%. Sales of the Ford Fusion and Toyota Corolla each rose 22%. All of these vehicles are in the top 20 in terms of U.S. sales. Hyundai has two cars in the group. Sales of one of those — the Sonata — dropped 8% for the period. Sales of its Elantra rose 15%. Hyundai is losing market share to several other companies in the battle among the most popular cars and light trucks.
The U.S. car market is the hottest large car market in the world. If global manufacturers want to take advantage of that, they need to make progress in 2013. Hyundai and Kia have not articulated much of a plan to regain their growth rates. That is because they have none.
In this scenario, You will have to assign the shared disk first to the VIOS server and from there it will be assigned to LPAR.
Would HACMP work on this shared disk ?
[2] Can you have DLPAR ( Dynamic LPAR ) capabilities in IVM , that is assign one physical Fiber Adapter card to LPAR directly ? IVMVIOS ( which is you are running VIOS without HMC = Hardware Management Console )
in this scenario, you can give the LPAR , shared disk directly from the Storage ? ( provided feature is supported ?! )
[3] DO I need HMC for NPIV or can it run on IVM only ?
What is NPIV?
N_Port ID Virtualization(NPIV) is a standardized method for virtualizing a physical fibre channel port. An NPIV-capable fibre channel HBA can have multiple N_Ports, each with a unique identity. NPIV coupled with the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) adapter sharing capabilities allow a physical fibre channel HBA to be shared across multiple guest operating systems. The PowerVM implementation of NPIV enables POWER logical partitions (LPARs) to have virtual fibre channel HBAs, each with a dedicated world wide port name. Each virtual fibre channel HBA has a unique SAN identity similar to that of a dedicated physical HBA.
The minimum requirement for the 8 Gigabit Dual Port Fibre Channel adapter, feature code 5735, to support NPIV is 110304
hello everyone 😀
i’m new to AIX and i loved it the moment i saw an AIX admin who came to where i work to install an AIX server for an ERP project, i loved it so much that i bought the old server in my company
my server is 9133-55a
the server has no graphic card, and i cant use HMC
how can i install AIX 5 useing serial port to USB? fresh install want to wipe all data on it PS: after booking the server it beeps 2 times and on the green LCD i see this message “invalid LPAR par”
Does anyone know of a command that can be run on the lpar to show the name of the lpars managing HMC?
We have a large environment and records a little old on which HMC manages which lpars….if i could login to an lpar and just issue a command to show me its managing hmc that would be great.
