About This BookThis book provides maintenance information that is specific to the Eserver pSeries 630 Model 6C4 andModel 6E4, as well as adapters and attached devices that do not have their own service information. Italso contains Maintenance Analysis Procedures (MAPs) that are not common to other systems. In thisbook, the pSeries 630 Model 6C4 and Model 6E4 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.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 SystemNote: This document may contain references to the AIX operating system. If you are using anotheroperating system, consult the appropriate documentation for that operating system.This document may describe hardware features and functions. While the hardware supports them,the implementation of these features and functions depends upon support from the operatingsystem. AIX provides this support. If you are using another operating system, consult theappropriate documentation for that operating system regarding support for those features andfunctions.xvii
