6 Feb
2006
6 Feb
'06
8:41 a.m.
Joe R. wrote:
No probs - will try and get something this coming weekend.
round
Usual ST controller problem then though in that the PC's controller likely
won't talk nicely to the format used by the Intel machine :-(
Someone with a few years worth of rainy days could do something from the 310's
built in debugger I suppose ;)
I have some manuals for the 330 system which is
part of the same series
but I doubt they're be on any real help.
Well it turns out there's some useful stuff on Bitsavers - it only seems to
cover the earlier 286/10 boards (and no mention of the 1MB memory board that's
in this system), but it's enough to be getting on with.
Is ther anything that you're specificly trying to
find out? (other than
how to get around the passwoards!)
Well I think the bitsavers info should be enough to go on in order to drive
the internal diagnostics, so passwords are then really the only problem
assuming the hard disk even works (the rest of the system seems in good
condition, so I think there's a good chance it'll be OK).
I think my initial curiousity was that it was an oddball Intel machine with
Ethernet support - I didn't know that Intel actually branched out into
building their own minis along with the MDS line.
(Incidentally,
I can grab pics of my NCR Tower's multibus boards for you
sometime if you want - I think I've got an MSC board here at home, then the
machine is over at Bletchley and has the CPU, HPSIO, Ethernet and HPMSC
boards in
it)
Sure send them along. I like to add information about the systems that
the boards are found in. BTW it most likely has iRMX or iRMX86 installed on
the system and you'll
have to have a paasword to get into it. Speaking from experience :-(
Yep :-( That
or Xenix. Not sure how to get around that one - I can get passwords on SCSI disks easy enough but I've
got no way of hooking that
ST506/412 drive to anything more modern in order to modify it :(
I wish I could help but I don't know either. I wonder if anybody has
Linux running on a system with a ST 412 controller and might be able to
hack into the drive and delete/change the password. Yeap. I looked at your pictures and it's
definitely an Intel system.
That case looks like the same one that they used for the expansion chassis
and some of their external drive chassis for the MDSs.
Ahh, you know I had wondered after I left the site, but didn't have any photos
of our MDS systems handy at the time. Makes sense that they'd just re-use the
case, though.
cheers
Jules