28 Jul
1999
28 Jul
'99
11:06 a.m.
A couple of notes:
1) Which MFM drives you can use with your Pro 380 depends on the ROMs
on the harddrive adapter card. You need to determine that and consult
the archives at sunsite for a blurb that details which drives go with
which revisions of the ROMs.
2) If you don't have a daughterboard memory expansion card (NOT a memory
expansion card on the CTI bus), you can add 512KB easily. That turns
your Pro 380 into a 1MB machine without using a slot. I have available
spare daughterboard memory cards that you can strip the 64Kbit chips
from and add 256Kbit chips to get the 512KB. Let me know if you want
one.
3) To format harddrives in general, you can use the Pro Maintenance programs
that you normally run to check out the machine (available at ftp.update.uu.se)
When you start the program, before typing anything, you must type a magic
sequence of keystrokes to get the low-level formatting routine included in
the normal menu. The magic sequence is... I forgot! I'll have to look it
up later when I get home. Or maybe someone else can beat me to it?
4) When handling the CTI bus cards, be very careful of static and spurious
charges. It's very easy to zap these boards for some reason. Maybe the
PS doesn't discharge the caps?
Dave
"Zane H. Healy" wrote:
Well, I got the console cable, monitor, and monitor cable tonite. I didn't
get the keyboard (thankfully) as he'd not found one.
Dug up a couple LK201's in storage, came home found a powercable (actually
unplugged a Sparc 2 to get the power), and turned it on. Booted nice and
smooth. Looks to be running some munged version of POS 3.2 with the VAX
Console software on top of it.
Now I've got a couple software related questions.
First is there a way to get out of the VAX Console software into something
resembleing POS? It doesn't look like it.
Second. How do I get it to boot off of a floppy? Opps, never mind. I
just booted off of my RT-11 floppy. The problem seems to be with the copy
I made a year or so ago to use, now I'm using the original and it boots
fine. COOL! Hmm, this might explain why I couldn't get the /73 to boot
off of that floppy.
OK, that brings up a third question. Can a Quantum 540 hard drive turned
into a RD52 on a VAXstation 2000 be used in a DEC Pro380? Or do you need
to do some kind of funky formating on the Pro itself. I'm thinking of
setting up a Hard Drive with POS, and one with RT-11 when I can find the
time.
Zane
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