23 Oct
2012
23 Oct
'12
11:16 a.m.
On 10/23/12 12:42 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/23/2012 01:15 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I certainly hope it's the latter!
What release? (when you can examine them)
Um, wait.
I've been on vacation, so just very loosely monitoring this thread.
Did anybody mention the non-standard *terminator*? The 68-pin
terminator on the non-m76 VS 3100s is not "normal", and IIRC is required.
Can somebody elaborate, if this hasn't been covered?
Doc
Ideas, or reach for the OpenVMS CD? Is there an easy
way to use the SCSI
port on the VAXstation 3100 (I hear it has a different pinout)?
It's either a hardware failure or a badly corrupted system disk. Unless there's stuff on there that you need
to recover, you're wasting
your time...just do a fresh install. Do you have a VMS distribution on CD?
CDs came with it; I haven't examined them. I should make sure they work in
simh, so the G5 is industriously compiling simh as I type this. (Can simh
netboot the 3100?) I also ordered a SCSI cable as per Glen's link, so we'll
try getting it running again when the cable arrives.
You should be able to netboot a physical machine via a simh-based
machine. Much easier to just hook up a CDROM drive, though. I'd remove
the lid and use that trick.