> > Dear Sir
> > I have a 1000 sq. ft warehouse full of used DEC pdp and pre IBM p.c.
> > equipment / manuals / spares etc.
> > I need someone to help me get rid of all of it. I realize it has some
> > value on Ebay but my lease has run out and I need to recover some of my
> > costs ASAP.
> > I am in California on the central coast.
> > Any suggestions.
--
I talked to Ken this afternoon.
He needs 3-4K to cover the back rent on the storage
and is looking for someone to take all this stuff and
sell it on eBay for him. He thinks it's worth $100000
I may go down there on Friday to see what's there
assuming he can find the item that he says he has
that I'm looking for.
Hi,
I just got an Emulex QD21 (thanks iseldure! I've got $10 here for you
for postage) and I've been playing with it, with some Maxtor XT-4380E
drives.
I'm managing alright to a point. I downloaded docs for the QD21, set dip
switches and I can get into the controller's firmware. The problem arises
when it comes to do things with the disks. If I tell the controller the
disk is type 2, then it picks up settings from the drive fine (and they
even co-relate with the drive), but any operations I perform on the drive
after that (even "Show known devices") times out.
I tried selecting the format option. If I set the drive as type 2 and
let it pick up setting from the drive, it times out the operation before
reading the media defect list. If I set the drive as type 1, and punch in
the settings from the QD21 docs for the Maxtor XT-4380E, then it starts
formatting, then after a couple of minutes of activity, the drive makes
some noises (which I don't think sound healthy) then times out again.
I only have one data cable, and if I just use the one drive (which
appears to be terminated) then nothing appears to work - things just time
out. If I hook up another drive and change drive IDs, then I can perform
the format operation as defined above.
Needless to say, I'm a little stumped.
The controller is in an MV3300, but I've not got VMS working on there
ATM, so I'm not sure about configuring an interupt vector for it.
If it's any help to people, I can get listings from the console, it's
just not particularly easy as I don't have a serial cable to hook the vax
to my PC with me, only the vt420.
I don't really know ESDI, and I'm not that familiar with QBus - only
some details, ordering of cards, etc.
Any thoughts welcome :&)
--Matt
David A Woyciesjes was found to ask thusly:
>
> Does anyone know if there is a free/share/money-ware program that
> can turn a Mac into a DHCP server? For use on an older 68k Mac...
Yeah, sort-of, if you can find it.
Vicom Technologies (www.vicomtech.com) has a product that's
undergone a few name changes and feature orgies. Originally
named "Vicom Internet Gateway", then "Vicom Soft Router", and
maybe back to the original name... it's a software-based NAT
router. It includes a built-in DHCP server.
It wasn't expensive... it came bundled with Applshare IP 5.0,
and when we finally purchased a cross-platform upgrade, that
was either US$29 or US$79.
At one time, you could download trial versions of the package.
Additionally, if you hunt around, you'll find the magix needed
to make the evaluation period last a very, very long time. ;-)
hth,
-doug q
Gunther,
Appreciate the info, get my end done and hope the electricians aren't too
far off for moving the 220's to where I need them. Thanks again.
Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Gunther Schadow
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 11:37 AM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: first step getting VAX 6000-400 booted ...
Phil, I did convert to 220 single. I made my own reference along
the way. Here goes:
http://aurora.rg.iupui.edu/~schadow/VAX/power.txt
regards,
-Gunther
Phil Schilling wrote:
>
> Gunther,
> Slightly off your topic, but did you convert the power to 220
single phase
> on your 6000? If so exactly which reference did you follow. I need to
set
> up both my 6000 and the drive array for single phase so I can get them
fired
> up. Thanks
>
> Phil Schilling
> GCS Tech
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Gunther Schadow
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 1:02 PM
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org; port-vax(a)netbsd.org
> Subject: first step getting VAX 6000-400 booted ...
>
> Hi,
>
> after my pretty good VAX treck last weekend (more details coming
> up on my project web site at a later time) I finally have SDI disks.
> I hooked one up last night and did all the checking as per the
> RA9x manual (yes I have one plus many more, will scan those at
> some time...) and it seems to be O.K. (even though it was pretty
> messed up stored in a barn among lots of birds for many years).
>
> Here is one para about where I am at and then I have some
> specific questions for Geoff Roberts or Ragge or anyone who
> has had experienced any luck with getting a 6000 up to operation.
>
> I have bootable tape for Ultrix 4.1 and VMS 5.3 both TK50. None
> of them work. I seem to have no luck with the TK70 and I have
> no way finding out what's wrong. I tried to boot from that RA90
> disk, even though I don't know what's on it. It has unit #0, so
> I thought it might be a system disk. But that too failed with
> some I/O error very early in the process. I also have a TU81+ and
> VMS bootable tape on 9-track, maybe that's more reliable? Tonight's
> project is to move the TU81+ into the basement and hook it up.
> I'm afraid I'll get stuck there too and what then? Network
> booting?
>
> Here's some more detail and questions:
>
> The TK50 boot proceeds for quite a while, although it never shows
> any message on the console about where it is at before it halts
> due to some unspecified error. However, about one or two minutes
> into the tape running the system-panel's FAULT light comes on and
> at the same time both yellow and green LEDs on the TKB70 board
> extinguish. That's for about a second or two. Then the lights
> go back to normal and the fault light turned off. Another 30
> seconds to a minute tape streaming and the same light-spiel happens
> again: fault on, TKB70 LEDs off, and back to normal. Now a shorter
> time (like 10 seconds) of tape streaming and again. From now on that
> repeats for about 4 or 5 more cycles and finally the system is
> halted and console says: system halted due to previous error.
> However, no error message is being printed. I have no idea where
> I am in the process.
>
> I have tried cleaning the TK70 read/write head of course. I have
> tried a different copy of that Ultrix tape. It's always the same.
>
> Is this bliking of fault and shutting off of both TBK70 LEDs
> normal for media read errors or does it indicate something more
> serious? How can I tell where in the process I am? Is there an
> error flag somewhere in memory that I could EXAMINE to find out
> what is wrong?
>
> BTW: at first I had my CIBCA cards in and the boot process would
> halt earlier: system would say "insufficient memory for CI" and
> "10% or more of the memory is bad". Who is checking memory there?
> I could not find anything in Ultrix 4.2 sources that would generate
> such a message. And why would it anyway, because my system check
> tells me that I have 512 MB of memory OK. Or does it speak of
> 10% of the CIBCA's internal memory?
>
> Is there a boot flag that I could turn on that would cause the
> loader etc. to be more verbose?
>
> Has anyone tried booting Ultrix over the network? I am going to
> try that but all I have is Ultrix on TK50 (that doesn't work)
> and sources without any VAX running to compile them on. Is there
> a cross compiler suite? I'd like to compile with the DEBUG
> flag set.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions,
> -Gunther
>
> --
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>Yeah, sort-of, if you can find it.
>
>Vicom Technologies (www.vicomtech.com) has a product that's
>undergone a few name changes and feature orgies. Originally
>named "Vicom Internet Gateway", then "Vicom Soft Router", and
>maybe back to the original name... it's a software-based NAT
>router. It includes a built-in DHCP server.
>
>It wasn't expensive... it came bundled with Applshare IP 5.0,
>and when we finally purchased a cross-platform upgrade, that
>was either US$29 or US$79.
>
>At one time, you could download trial versions of the package.
>Additionally, if you hunt around, you'll find the magix needed
>to make the evaluation period last a very, very long time. ;-)
Although, lots of people use and love Vicom's SoftRouter (I think that is
the name it is going by now)... I would like to point out that last I
knew, it uses its own TCP/IP stack, and not Apple's OpenTransport. The
Vicom stack has been known to provide incompatibility with some software
that wants to use OpenTransport. I have also heard that Vicom's is more
unstable in general (but I guess that might be dependant on what version
of OpenTransport you compare it to, as early versions of OT were very
unstable in their own right). This might have changed by now, but I would
confirm it before buying.
And then just to give a plug to Sustainable Softworks... their
IPNetRouter product does everything Vicom's does (and more I believe),
and is priced pretty much the same ($49 for 68k only, $79 for PPC and
68k). I don't have any connection with Sustainable Softworks, I am just a
VERY VERY satisfied customer (I put them as the #1 best company I have
ever had to deal with).
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
On Oct 23, 16:35, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> Mike Ford skrev:
> >Just for laughs I made a search just now of my email address
> >mikeford(a)socal.rr.com, and I got 233 hits via the Google usenet group
> >search. I really honestly only get maybe 5 bits of spam a day, and 80%
of
> >those I know I foolishly signed up for at some time recently. Have you
> >spamphobs ever considered that maybe you get a lot of spam because you
mung
> >your email address, or that you don't have a profile in any spam
databanks?
> I did a Google Groups search as well, and got over 10 000 hits on my
address.
> Perhaps is one subjected to spam because one is an active netizen?
Well, I just tried a Google Groups search, for comparison, and got 14 hits.
I got 1020 from a straight Google (web) search, the majority from
ClassicCmp (at least amongst the first few screenfuls).
I don't especially like munged addresses either, but providing it's obvious
(and obvious how to undo the obfuscation) I think it may be a necessary
evil at times.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
