22 May
2002
22 May
'02
5:33 a.m.
Funny! "dead sergeant". Nope, no counting down, no text other than the
lines with "?" marks (which do relate to the F...1) reporting errors.
*Only* errors (and their coresponding lines #'s F thru 1 IF an error/warning
was detected) are reported. I suspect I have a cable issue, as the other
expected console chatter isn't there. The system is likely reporting erros
out the 9pin, and doesn't know it's a console port... the pin 8-9 issue.
Thought I read somewhere, that a VS/MV2000 will not complete the POST
without happy ethernet termination. Could be wrong, but best bet is to
resolve the cable issue first, so I can see what's going on...
I might have odd thichwire cables, but then I have 3 of them ! hummmmm!
Anyone have an electronic copy of the VS system guides?
rod
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From: "Christopher Smith" <csmith(a)amdocs.com
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 11:01 AM
Subject: VAXStation 2000 (Was: TK50Z-GA and MicroVax 3100/90?)
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From: Rod Young [mailto:rodyoung@shaw.ca]
I actually have a DEC printer adapter
(MMJ->9pin) which kind
of works in the
9pin port on the VS2000 (I think) as it does display some
text... but not
all from what I can tell. Appears to only report lines with
"?" marks...
which are warnings and "??" marks I assume are errors. I get
a ?? on the
It's odd that it works at all. :) Even stranger if you really
are only getting lines with ? in them ;)
Are you getting the "dead sergeant?" It looks like:
>>
Do you see the system counting down in hex? (From F to 1, I think)
device line "1" (ethernet) and thought
I read somewhere that
the thinwire
had to be terminated or forget it... and given the 9 pin
Forget what? That will prevent an auto-boot, but won't keep the
system from operating. It's not serious; just serious enough that
they wanted to wait for some console input before going ahead. Go
ahead and try booting it.
Yes, tried hooking up the AUI port too, but the
thickwire
cables I have
won't fit! The gender is fine, but both the cables and the
AUI port on the
VS have the locking posts. I seem to be hitting dead ends
That's odd :) They might be strange cables.
all over... but
will try to connect the thinwire to resolve the "??"
reported, and also make
a proper 9pin cable, then will see where that gets me.
If you're getting the prompt, the counting in hex, and the
CPU ID (something like KAXXX-XX, I think), you're doing
fine in the cable department. I suppose if not, maybe the
VAX prints its errors to all the ports on bootup. In that
case, it won't take input from that port, and you'll need
to get the right cable to tell it to boot. You still don't
absolutely have to get the network connected, though.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
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