14 Apr
2006
14 Apr
'06
10:55 p.m.
You wrote...
Got the ADDS mentor 2000 to boot today.
Awesome!
OPTIONS [X,F,NX]=
Careful... do NOT hit the
"F" option, unless you have a full backup tape
that includes monitor and abs sections. You'll be sorry. F option kills off
the files from disk, then expects to load all from tape!.
1) Does anyone know of a way to bypass the SYSPROG
password?
Yup, but it isn't easy (unless you're well up on the system
debugger). I'll
go through it off-list if no one answers.
2) Is there any way to make the system boot without
waiting
for the power-on tests to complete. I can get to the monitor
command prompt, and I can run various tests from there,
but I have not found a way to boot the system other than to
power-off, power-on and wait for the tests to complete.
I am not that familiar
with the ADDS pick implementation, but I would
suspect this is a jumper on the cpu board.
3) Anyone know exactly what type of tapes this
machines
uses (If I take it apart and get the drive model number, this
might give us a clue). I found a function in the monitor which
apparently backs up the hard drive to tape ...
Different for many vendors, but
the most common were DC6150, DC6250, and
DC6525. The backup in the monitor will be a binary image backup, not a
formatted pick backup (ie, you can't use that backup at the F option).
4) Anyone know of a way to "break out" of a
program launched
at login to a command shell (the docs says it's called TCL
for Terminal Command Language).
Break key, unless it's disabled.
5) Anyone know what the "F" or
"NX" commands do in response
to OPTIONS [X,F,NX]=
Do any of these options let me reinit the system, reset the SYSPROG
password ?
F is "erase all files on disk, and then reload this tape here I
have as the
only files on the system". NX is probably something to return to the
firmware diags that you were in before you got the pick "options' prompt.
6) If I answer "Yes" to "Did you just
reload from tape", what exactly will
this do? ... Will it let me re-init the system/reset the SYSPROG
password?
This is familiar, but for some reason I'm totally drawing a blank
on what
this is for.
6) Any other info, esp. about the "Diagnostic
Assurance Monitor"
commands etc. Would be most useful... ?
Nah, the diagnostics were absolutely
completely different on each machine,
as they were not part of Pick at all. So, this is something very adds2000
specific. Need a manual for it. Often many of the diag functions required
raw controller byte fields to be input, so the function was useless without
the docs.
Jay