Apollo problems

On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, John Rollins wrote: Are you sure it crashes? these utilities take a while to load and run, even on a DN5500. When you boot in service mode, you get the "phase one shell" which is really just a simple ROM monitor. The machine will load and run its self-tests, and then return the phase one shell prompt. Typing "H" will get you a list of the commands you can use at this point. Here's what I would do: EX DEX (this runs the calendar utility) RE (do this twice; you'll have to hit enter a couple times after each before it'll let you type anything else) EX SALVOL (this runs the disk check utility) RE (again, do it twice) EX CONFIG (hardware configuration utility; tell it about your machine) RE (twice) EX DOMAIN_OS (this will start the Apollo Phase_II shell, assuming DOMAIN/OS SR10.x is installed) if the phase 2 shell loads ok, type "go" to finish booting the OS. If the OS won't boot from the phase 2 shell, reset the machine, EX SALVOL, REset twice, and then EX DOMAIN_OS again. You can do a number of things from the phase 2 shell; "help" will get you a list of commands. That should at least get you started. A (green) power B (amber) heartbeat, or "OS Running" C (amber) disk activity D (amber) network traffic (incoming) E (amber) network traffic (outgoing) If the machine isn't hooked up to a network, the network traffic indicators seem to behave non-deterministically. The 780 MB disk is not supported on all controllers. I know the SMS OMTI 8610 model will not, the other SMS model (8621) MIGHT, and the WD7000 will for sure. Disks formatted for use in the DN5500 are not useable on other machines without reformatting, either (the same thing holds in reverse), so if your 780 MB disks were used on a DN5500, neither will be accessible on anything other than another DN5500. -- ok r. r e d @ b e a r s . o r g =========================== [ urs longa | vita brevis ]