About This BookThis book provides maintenance information that is specific to the Eserver pSeries 615 Models 6C3 and6E3, as well as adapters and attached devices that do not have their own service information. It alsocontains Maintenance Analysis Procedures (MAPs) that are not common to other systems. In this book,the pSeries 615 Model 6C3 and Model 6E3 are hereafter referred to as the system.MAPs that are common to all systems are contained in the RS/6000 Eserver pSeries DiagnosticInformation for Multiple Bus Systems.This book is used by the service representative to repair system failures. This book assumes that theservice representative has had training on the system unit.ISO 9000ISO 9000 registered quality systems were used in the development and manufacturing of this product.HighlightingThe following highlighting conventions are used in this book:Bold Identifies commands, subroutines, keywords, files, structures, directories, and other itemswhose names are predefined by the system. Also identifies graphical objects such as buttons,labels, and icons that the user selects.Italics Identifies parameters whose actual names or values are to be supplied by the user.Monospace Identifies examples of specific data values, examples of text similar to what you might seedisplayed, examples of portions of program code similar to what you might write as aprogrammer, messages from the system, or information you should actually type.Accessing InformationDocumentation for the IBM Eserver pSeries is available online. Visit the IBM Eserver pSeriesInformation Center at http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/en_US/infocenter/base.v To access the pSeries publications, click Hardware documentation.v To view information about the accessibility features of Eserver pSeries hardware and the AIX operatingsystem, click AIX and pSeries accessibility.References to AIX Operating SystemThis document may contain references to the AIX operating system. If you are using another operatingsystem, consult the appropriate documentation for that operating system.This document may describe hardware features and functions. While the hardware supports them, therealization of these features and functions depends upon support from the operating system. AIX providesthis support. If you are using another operating system, consult the appropriate documentation for thatoperating system regarding support for those features and functions.xvii
