7 Sep
2015
7 Sep
'15
5:32 a.m.
Hello Peter
Looks like I trod the same path as you.
I cleaned the CD with a microfibre cloth. No Joy.
I tried every scsi CD drive I have. After setting the jumpers of course.
Theres a couple more in the store I'll clean them up and give them a try.
The wife and I (retired) are off for a week's KGB (kids gone back)
holiday to-morrow, so I'll have a go when I get back.
Rod
On 07/09/2015 11:37, Peter Coghlan wrote:
Rod Smallwood wrote:
I thought it might be nice to have a DEC based graphics work station.
I had the Alpha, a high res monitor and the Hobbyist Media CD for
ALPHAVMS 8,3. (yes the system supports 8.3)
SFSG .. So CD in the drive and switch on. First a nice colour
graphics demo/test.
Then the nomal system level stuff. >>> prompt, enter SHO DEV and our
CD drive shows as DKA400 just where it should be.
So Boot DKA400: and off we go. After a while a menu appears from
which you can load layered products you need.
It gets part way through the load and falls over with a data error.
The cd is a real bought and paid for Media CD and is not a copy.
I've come across problems with CD media and/or CD drives in several
alphas.
Sometimes cleaning the disks well helped (these were original CONDIST
CDs too).
Other times cleaning the CD drive seemed to help but usually only for
a while.
More often things quickly got worse and I had to change out the drive.
Before I do a lot of tedious emaling (HP have taken the Hobbyist
program in house) has anybody successfully loaded an Alpha with
ALPHA VMS 8.3?
I'm not sure what you mean here. I have ALPHA VMS 8.3 running on a
Digital
Personal WorkStation 500a and 8.2 running on an Alphaserver 800
5/500. I'm
sure lots of people are running 8.3 on all sorts of Alphas.
I have two Dec 3000 Model 600 machines but neither works - the LEDs
count down
to F0 (IIRC) and that's it. Nothing happens on the console. Both
failed in
service, one when I was trying to reboot it remotely. I think they
used to run
V6.2 - they've been out of action a long time.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.