22 Feb
2011
22 Feb
'11
9:03 p.m.
On 2/22/2011 10:11 AM, arcarlini at iee.org wrote:
Just for future reference, I've thrown them up here:
http://yahozna.dyndns.org/computers/software/vax/ka650/v1.2/
Feel free to grab them :).
- Josh
Josh Dersch [derschjo at mail.msu.edu] wrote:
I didn't see anything about test codes/errors either, but I found the
section on the diagnostic LEDs and that's fortunately all I need :).
Thanks -- I don't know why I didn't think
to look at that in
the first
place. Turns out there are diagnostic LEDs on the board (helpful!)
and they indicate "keyboard failure". This is the only
I should have
read the manual more carefully but I had something to
get done on the car before it got dark. I'll pretend it was much better
in the long run you get you to read it :-)
I was surprised that in my quick skim I didn't see any mention of the
sorts of errors you might see on the console for various errors. I think there's a way of booting the uVAX as
though the graphics
board were not there: some setting(s) of the various switches.
Hopefully someone with a better memory will remember how that's done.
I can still get it to boot via a serial console without any issues,
fortunately.
If you can do that, then the OS might still initialise
the graphics
and you'll have at least half a workstation.
All I have running at the moment is OpenBSD, I'm hoping to get VMS
running on it shortly once I get a working keyboard.
I have made
images, if anyone's looking :).
Hopefully Pete will take them and add them to
the archive.
I'd take them but I'd probably lose them before needing them :-)