On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Christopher Smith wrote: No, he meant that it wouldn't boot at all. This box has been "rode hard & put up wet". 2 of the 3 E70 disks aren't recognized - one doesn't spin at all and one spins but I can't hear the heads move, and the Diags don't see it. The one good disk reports on all positions - C,D, and E - so the cables & PS connections are good. The docs concerning switches and termination aren't very clear on multiple disks, but I've tried the dead ones singly, and they're still dead. The ESDI adapter and the good disk ass the Diags tests. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. I had to remove the SIIG 8-bit serial/parallel card before the poor guy could boot at all. With just the good disk attached, the AOS miniroot gets adapter time-outs from the EESDI adapter, and reboots endlessly. The stand-alone utility won't accept any device name I can come up with - /dev/hdc0, /dev/hd0, hdc0, hd0, 0, slave 0 - to format the disk. The biggest problem, though, is that the Escape and F3 keys are totally dead. Does anybody have dumb-ass-level instructions for repairing an RT keyboard? It's apparently some kind of bubble/double-membrane switch. The back cover is missing and the floor pedestal is mostly chipped away. The good news: It's the Enhanced Advanced 032 CPU, and it has both the Ungermann-Bass ethernet adapter and the 6157 tape-drive adapter. No 6157 drive or cable. than they were like normal Unix. From what I've heard they may be quite a bit different from new versions. I dunno. Modern AIX is 'much more like "something strange"' than it is like modern Unix.... Doc, who is in WAY over his head