7 Feb
2002
7 Feb
'02
5:19 a.m.
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Doc wrote:
Well, it's 'whacked' -- i poped the cylinder off of the switch part, and
turned the switch by hand (verified, it doesn't boot when it should be in
'Secure' mode). Still, not a drop out of either of the two serial ports.
I've checked them with a RatShack RS-232 led box, and everthing's 'wired
up' correctly it seems. Even tried two different null-modems with them.
Right now, the last thing that the LED display shows is '522'. (which just
stays on there, doesn't disappear)
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Pat Finnegan wrote:
They don't seem to spin up when stuck in a peecee (good old IBM
extensions i'm sure). However, they seem to be 2G.. so decent size.
All 1" SCSI drives. I'm gonna hook that
unhooked one up to my PC to try
and see at least how big it is..
Nice. All the 530s and 2 of the 550s I've seen had full-height 5.25
drives. Noisy & expensive to spin. I tried
hooking a serial terminal up to it, and booting w/o the
framebuffer card (or KB or mouse), but no luck. I was using 9600baud, 1
stop bit, no parity, should I try something else? Any ideas on what kind
of monitor I could interface to it?
Service mode. You'll have to whack that lock before you can do much
of anything. Your terminal settings are right. There should be a paper
label on the adapter's bulkhead bracket with something like "1-1" or
"1-4" on it. Look it up in the MicroChannel Devices pdf at
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/library/hardware_docs/
That ought to give you sync & refresh rates.
I've got a 1-9: FC 2768 'POWER Gt3i Graphics Subsystem'. Any chance that
a PS/2 XGA card will work? I think I can get one of those, but I'm
doubting it'll work because of microcode...
-- Pat