2 May
2001
2 May
'01
3:17 p.m.
Since you have SCSI, your best bet is to get a CD-ROM drive and a copy of
VMS on CD-ROM. Then you can install VMS and any layered products for which
you have PAKs (when you join DECUS they will send you, on request, PAKs for
most layered products)
I suggest if you have a local surplus electronics place or perhaps a PC
repair center that you scrounge around for a Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM drive.
They will often work in this application.
--Chuck
At 10:27 PM 5/2/01 -0400, you wrote:
Hi all,
Refresher for those who have forgotten:
MicroVAX 3100/20e...I couldn't get it to boot, except into Standalone BACKUP
mode. When the box boots, it reports that it's finding the tape drive,
DKA300, and DKB200.
I tried Eric's suggestion, but no luck. My guess is that I need to get
the OS on TK50 tapes and find out whether the 2nd disk is even alive, but
I have no idea where to get VMS on tape. I've been playing with intel
hardware for years, but this is the first time I've ever experimented with
VMS.
Anyone have any suggestions as to where I could find tapes for this beast?
I've been lurking for the past week or three, and obviously the folks on
this list know a LOT more than I do about reviving ancient hardware!
Thanks in advance...
Peter Kukla
Eric Dittman electronically enscribed:
--
fruviad| "You've got to be kidding! I'm wet, I'm naked, your sister is
wearing
@coil / my clothes, and this is all part of some evil plot to rule the world
com / as a soggy chimp in my birthday suit??" - MoJo JoJo "The Powerpuff
Girls"
After digesting the above output, I tried booting
to DKB200. That caused
another disk inside to spin up (definitely louder than the first, but not
necesarily to the point of screaming "I'm dead!"), but there's
obviously
a problem:
This means there's no boot files on DKB200.
You might try to see if VMS was installed
using a root directory other than SYS0.
Try B/x0000000, where x is from 0 to F.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
>> BOOT DKB200
?42 NOSUCHFILE
?06 HLT INST
PC = 00000C66