7 May
2007
7 May
'07
12:41 a.m.
On Monday 07 May 2007 00:34, Jos Dreesen wrote:
Today I tried out my new (18 year old) Microvax 3800
.
(tk70, ethernet, rf31, rf72, scsi ). I removed the KDA50 boards.
The system tries to boot into VMS5.4, but hangs because it seems to
look for diskarrays that are no longer present.
Is it possible to boot into a root mode to change the startup
behaviour ? Of course passwords are not available.
Look at the OpenVMS FAQ (somewhere on HP's website, google should find
it) on how to recover a lost system password. The same technique should
let you in before the system tries to mount any disks.
Finally, are DSSI and SCSI terminators identical ?
No. If you plug something SCSI into the DSSI bus, you'll likely blow the
termination power fuse on the CPU board (I know because I did it once
myself, long ago ;).
Pat
--
Purdue University ITAP/RCAC --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/
The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org