In the last post, I talked about the NTSX06BA PRL card that I purchased. In this post, I'll detail the datafill and initial setup on the DMS itself.
The first step will be adding the PRL card to the LTC we set up before in LTCINV.
LTCNAME ADNUM FRTYPE FRNO SHPOS FLOOR ROW FRPOS EQPEC LOAD EXECTAB CSLNKTAB OPTCARD TONESET PROCPEC EXTLINKS E2LOAD OPTATTR PEC6X40 EXTINFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LTC 0 1 LTEI 0 18 1 B 3 6X02NA QLI22AO ( POTS POTSEX) ( PRAB DTCEX)$ (0 10 16 0) (0 10 16 1) (0 10 16 2) (0 10 16 3) (0 10 16 4) (0 10 16 5) (0 10 16 6) (0 10 16 7) (0 10 16 8) (0 10 16 9) (0 10 16 10) (0 10 16 11) (0 10 16 12) (0 10 16 13) (0 10 16 14) (0 10 16 15) $ (UTR15 ) (MSG6X69 ) (CMR13 CMRU23A) (ISP 16) $ NORTHAA SX05AA (PRL) $ SX05AA (PRL) $ 0 SXFWAL01 $ 6X40FA N
This change is fairly simple, 'PROCPEC' gets entered as 'SX05AA PRL $ SX05AA PRL $' to specify that they both have PRL cards installed in the first slot.
The next part will be loading the software load into the card from the core. For this, we need to post the LTC in MAPCI with 'MAPCI;MTC;PM;POST LTC 0'. From here, we use the XPMSTOR command to load the software onto the card e.g. 'XPMSTOR PM QLI22AO' to load the PM with the loadfile QLI22AO. You should also note that some peripheral types are capable of dumping an image file using the 'IMAGE' command (however the LTCI at least using NTSX05 does not, so we must use XPMSTOR).
You can also query some information about the NTSX06 using 'QUERYPM CONFIG' and 'QUERYPM FILES'.
Initially loading the loadfile onto the PRL card takes about as long as loading the PM normally would, but once you have the loadfile on the PRL card, you can use the 'LOADPM PM LOCAL LOADFILE' command to make the PM load off the PRL card. That operation only takes a minute or two, cutting the boot time down substantially.
It's worth noting that the normal system recovery process will try to use the loadfile from the PRL card if possible, but it may revert to loading from the CM if there is any sort of failure (like if you forgot to turn on the LTC during it's initial attempts, of if your LTC didn't come up right the first time you power it on like mine does). You may want to check on the recovery process in that case, and manually force the load from the PRL card by busying the PM, using the LOADPM command as above, and returning the PM to service.