18 Feb
2016
18 Feb
'16
6:14 a.m.
Peter,
Thanks for the email. My challenge is that this machine has a floppy and a
SCSI drive (both appear to be cabled correctly when I open things up) and
yet neither show up when I do a "show device" from the console.
>> show device
VMS/VMB ULTRIX ADDR DEVTYP NUMBYTES RM/FX WP DEVNAM REV
------- ------ -------- ------ -------- ----- -- ------ ---
ESA0 SE0 08-00-2B-16-58-20
Therefore, when I issue a "boot" command, it's trying to boot from the
network and not from the floppy I currently have inserted.
Any ideas on troubleshooting I can do to determine why it isn't seeing
things on the SCSI bus? (I'm assuming this is a SCSI floppy - please let
me know if I'm incorrect in that assumption.)
Thanks,
Bryan
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:30 AM, Peter Coghlan <cctalk at beyondthepale.ie>
wrote:
Hi everyone. I'm hoping that one of the VAX experts out there can help
me
figure out how to get my 3100 booting. I managed
to cobble together the
necessary cabling and was able to run a "TEST 50" from the serial
console.
Unfortunately my Google-fu isn't sufficient
to help me figure out what
the
results mean. Here is what I'm getting
below. Any ideas where my
problem
lies?
Hi Bryan,
This looks pretty good. There are no double question marks which would
indicate possibly more serious failures.
? CLK suggests the time of year clock is not set because the battery is
bad.
(I suggest removing the battery before it leaks.)
? DZ usually means that one of the serial ports could not be tested (the
one
you have the console terminal connected to).
The other results are all good.
What happens when you give it a BOOT command?
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.
>> test 50
KA42-A V1.3
ID 08-00-2B-16-58-20
MONO 0000.0001
? CLK 0000.0005
NVR 0000.0001
? DZ 0000.4001
00000001 00000001 00000001 00004001 00000000 00000000
MEM 0010.0001
01000000
MM 0000.0001
FP 0000.0001
IT 0000.0001
SYS 0000.0001
8PLN 0000.0001 V1.3
NI 0100.0001
>>