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From: cctalk-bounces at
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bounces at
classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Cameron Kaiser
Sent: 23 October 2012 18:16
To: cctalk at
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Subject: Re: VMS newbie with sick VAXstation
Ideas, or
reach for the OpenVMS CD? Is there an easy way to use the
SCSI port on the VAXstation 3100 (I hear it has a different pinout)?
It's either a hardware failure or a badly corrupted system disk.
I certainly hope it's the latter!
> Unless there's stuff on there that you need to recover, you're wasting
> your time...just do a fresh install. Do you have a VMS distribution on
CD?
CDs came with it; I haven't examined them. I should make sure they work in
simh, so the G5 is industriously compiling simh as I type this. (Can simh
netboot the 3100?)
Yes, but as has been mentioned, if you have a suitable 50-pin SCSI CDROM
drive and the media, it is easier to use that. You either need the special
external cable, or as has been mentioned before take the lid off and use the
internal 50-pin SCSI cable directly.
I also ordered a SCSI cable as per Glen's link, so we'll try
getting it running again when the cable arrives.
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