Note: When converting from Bus/Board/Card format to Bus-Bus-Bus-Bus/Card-Card/Board-Board
format, the numbers must be converted from Decimal to Hexadecimal.
Go to step 9 (See page 576) for IOA and device address information.
6. Display the FRU details for the problem that you are attempting to fix. The location information in the
field-replacable unit detail is only available for IOPs, IOAs, and devices.
Is the field-replaceable unit an IOP, IOA, or device and is there location information in the Location
field of the display?
v No: Continue with the next step.
v Yes: Use the location information and return to the procedure that sent you here.
This ends the procedure.
7. There is no location information in the Location field. Are there Additional Words displayed at the
bottom of the screen?
v No: Go to Hexadecimal Product Activity Log Data in the iSeries Service Functions
book to obtain the address information. Then, return here and continue with the next step.
v Yes: Use the additional words to find the address information:
– If characters 7 and 8 of word two are 60:
- The IOP address is word four in the format ″BBBBCcbb″.
- The device address is word five in the format ″abcd efgh″.
– If characters 7 and 8 of word two are 13, 17, 27, or 29:
- The IOP address is word three in the format ″BBBBCcbb″.
- The device address is word four in the format ″abcd efgh″.
–
If characters 7 and 8 of word two are 62:
- The IOP address may be word seven in the format ″BBBBCcbb″.
- The device address may be word six in the format ″abcd efgh″.
Continue
with the next step.
8. The BBBBCcbb format is the hexadecimal direct select address of a card location in the system unit.
The format definition is:
BBBB—System Bus
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