15 Sep
2015
15 Sep
'15
6:03 p.m.
Now returned from vacation in southen Germany (warmer than the uk) and
wading through 500+ emails.
Well the good news is that 8.3 _will _install on the 3000 - 600. It
boots every time now.
The problem is its verry fussy about the CD drive you use.
Borrowing a nearly new genuine DEC RRD drive from another alpha finally
did it.
Next job up is to key in the PAK for TCP/IP and pull the whole PAK .cmd
file over and run it.
Rod
On 08/09/2015 09:58, Huw Davies wrote:
I don?t have access to the same resources I used to,
but a bell ringing in my head says that V8.3 might have been supported on the 3000/400 as
an upgrade but not as an original install.
ISTR that the problem was running out of space on the CD to support booting older
systems.
As I said, this comes from memory so I could well be wrong?
Huw
On 8 Sep 2015, at 12:52 am, Sean Caron <scaron
at umich.edu> wrote:
I have a 3000/400 and I was never able to get 8.3 to install on it ... I
don't think I was ever able to get it to even boot from the 8.3 media (with
most recent firmware) ... I just dropped back to V7.3 and it works great.
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk>
wrote:
> I was quite surprised about 8.3 supporting the DEC 3000/600 AXP, however
> looking at the Quickspecs you appear to be right.
>
> http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx%2Fc04154442.pdf
>
> However, I don't see any Turbochannel graphics adapters listed as
> supported, only the following:
>
> Graphics Options
> PBXGK
> ELSA/GLoria Synergy+ graphics option that provides 2D acceleration for
> supported PCI-based
> Alpha Workstations and Servers.
> PBXGD
> PowerStorm 300/500 graphics option that provides 3D acceleration or 3D
> acceleration with
> stereo viewing capabilities for supported PCI-based Alpha Workstations and
> Servers.
> PBXGF
> 3DLabs OXYGEN VX1 graphics option that provides 2D acceleration for
> supported PCI-based
> Alpha Workstations and Servers.
> PBXGG
> ATI RADEON 7500 2D and 3D, PCI and AGP graphics option
>
> So you might be out of luck on that front.
>
> Mark.
>
>
>
> On 07/09/15 10:16, Rod Smallwood wrote:
>
>> I thought it might be nice to have a DEC based graphics work station.
>> I had the Alpha, a high res monitor and the Hobbyist Media CD for
>> ALPHAVMS 8,3. (yes the system supports 8.3)
>> SFSG .. So CD in the drive and switch on. First a nice colour graphics
>> demo/test.
>> Then the nomal system level stuff. >>> prompt, enter SHO DEV and our CD
>> drive shows as DKA400 just where it should be.
>>
>> So Boot DKA400: and off we go. After a while a menu appears from which
>> you can load layered products you need.
>> It gets part way through the load and falls over with a data error. The
>> cd is a real bought and paid for Media CD and is not a copy.
>>
>> Before I do a lot of tedious emaling (HP have taken the Hobbyist program
>> in house) has anybody successfully loaded an Alpha with ALPHA VMS 8.3?
>>
>> Regards
>> Rod
>>
>>
>>
>>
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