It's Microchannel. MCI is a long distance telephone service company :-) Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA Enrico Badella wrote:

On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Paul Thompson wrote: The real issue with the 320 is the fact that it is very picky about the CDROM drives it wants to boot from. I tried quite a few drives with 512 bytes block size which work with other workstations (even RS/6000's), but I had no luck. The only drive mine liked to boot from was an original IBM double speed drive I borrowed from a friend (and sadly, he really wanted to keep it). To get rid of the root password, you'll need to boot from an external AIX medium in service mode. Given the CDROM problem, you have the option of connecting a tape drive (again, it will be hard finding one that works) or booting from floppy disk. To make suitable boot media, though, you'll need to have someone with a similar system and OS release create them for you. I can't, as my 320 is gone for the 39H I now have. I don't think that the 320 really supports a Ethernet raiser card. The 340 has such a thing, but I have not seen any supporting hardware in the 320. If you want to get a MCA Ethernet card, you cannot just use any of the standard PS/2 cards which are easily available. You will not find any AIX drivers for these cards. You absolutely need a special RS/6000 MCA Ethernet card. These are harder to find. Once you get the machine up and accept your login, it is a pretty neat machine. Getting it to run can be a real pain, though. Good luck, Hans -- finger hans(a)huebner.org for details

At 06:12 PM 9/29/01 +0200, Hans wrote: block luck. This is a 320H machine; apparently, there are some real differences; for example, the 320 is 20MHz, the 320H is 25MHz; also, I think that the 320 did not include a scsi card in the default configuration. This does. need to Oh. I wonder if a genuine DEC CDROM will work... I have one for my Vaxstation 4000/60. And I do have the 7208-001 8mm tape drive for this rs6k. Thanks! looks like I'll need lots of it. -------------------------------------------------------------- Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org

On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Hans H?bner wrote: I have used a DEC RRDxx CD drive to upgrade my 220 system from 4.1.3 to 4.1.5 with no problems, and a Toshiba XM5701 for installing some device drivers with no problems. I am sure the key to my success was that neither action required booting from the drive, however. (The 220 is reputed to be picky about its boot devices as well...) --

So, here's the deal. From time to time, I get the itch to collect classic computing stuff. I collect a bunch of stuff, pile it up in my house and then the itch is scratched and I forget about it for a while. What compels me to do this I don't pretend to understand. But the simple fact is that most of you are doing such a good job collecting, restoring and preserving this stuff that there's just no need for me to do it. In other words, because I'm pursuing my own interests which take alot of space, the time has come to choose either to be a classic computer collector or not to be. (IE it's time to sh*t or get off the pot.) Therefore, I'm considering sending ALL my classic computing stuff to live with the rest of you where it will be preserved and loved. This will free up ALOT of space in my house to pursue interests such as art and photography. And I'll get to see alot of smiling faces taking home treasures. Mind you, I'd like to get some money back out of this stuff but not necessarily as much as I'd get on Ebay. So I'm considering holding a garage sale/auction at my home the last weekend of October in Des Moines, Iowa. More valuable items would be auctioned over the course of an hour or so while less valuable (more common) items would simply be priced, haggled and sold. Stuff that would be sold or auctioned includes: Apple II stuff, Kaypro II, Epson QX10, Green screen monitors, Microvax II, Vaxstation 3100, Sun 3/60, 3/110s, Sun mono monitors, mice, keyboards, books. I have a Cisco IGS router (now 10 years old), a livingston 10 port terminal server, a TIE S100 chassis, a Vector S100 business computer with 8" hard disk in separate enclosure, around a dozen s100 cards, macintosh plus and other macintosh equipment, an 8" drive in it's own enclosure, a Shugart SA800 bare drive, software, books and all kinds of miscellaneous bits of hardware and software. I also have a 9 track streaming tape drive that goes with the Microvax II. I also have an old tektronix scope with aluminum rolling cart, a 19" dual width bud rack (4' tall appox), a crusty Northstar chassis and some other miscellaneous ham radio and electronics equipment. Also, of note, I have a 19" color terminal (the Intelligent Systems Corp unit I mentioned a few months ago), a vt102 and 2 or 3 vt220s with keyboards. I also have a Xebec 10 meg hard disk for Apple II machines and other weird and bizarre stuff. As I say, although I want to get a few bucks out of the stuff, I also want everything to go. So I'm willing to haggle. This would send it all away in one big shot for me, which would be absolutely wonderful. It'd also make me feel alot better than putting stuff in a dumpster or sending it to Goodwill. So, essentially, what I'm looking for is this: If I were to hold this the last Saturday of October, how many people would be able to come or send another collector on their behalf? It would be in Des Moines, Iowa. Please send me an email if you would be able to attend and, if enough people express interest, I'll make specific plans and post them this week. Thanks and I hope everyone will see this as a positive thing and not be too hard on me for wanting to pursue my other interests. Anthony Clifton Des Moines, Iowa

On 1 Oct 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote: An RS/6000 compatible card was implied, if not actually stated. As long as you're not asking for 100MB it won't be atrociously expensive. --

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Carlos Murillo wrote: You'll have to resort to trial and error. There is no way to boot the machine into a single user shell without an external boot device (and this will be hard to find, as detailed in earlier messages). You can also try to get into the machine through the network. I once managed to do this by faking a NIS server and serving a root account through NIS, but I was lucky because NIS was enabled on the machine (a RS6k/340H running AIX 3.2.1). Connect the box to a network and use tcpdump to see whether it has any network services running which you might exploit. Regards, Hans -- finger hans(a)huebner.org for details

At 08:14 AM 10/13/01 +0200, Hans wrote: machine Oh. Someone had said something about floppies before... Unfortunately, I don't have the "ethernet riser card" for this, so I'm network-less. carlos. -------------------------------------------------------------- Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org

I believe that that maintenance mode still asks for the root password. The tape/cd/diskette maintenance doesn't. If you had another RS6k you can probably import the disk from the other and remove or change the root password on the lost root box. You would need to expend some effort to get the lvol names back to what AIX expects for a system disk since the import will change the names of the logical volumes on the lost disk to not conflict with the host machine. On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Bob Purdon - Lists wrote: --

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Clint Wolff (VAX collector) wrote: Good suggestion. Note that AIX (at least it's current versions) places the encrypted password in /etc/security/passwd. The general file format is "<keyword> = <value>". What you want to do is replace all "password =" entries which have a password defined with your own encrypted password. -Hans -- finger hans(a)huebner.org for details

Carlos Murillo wrote: I have the powerserver 370 and wound up cutting the wires to the keyswitch. Jumpering the red (5v) to the white enabled me to boot up in maintenance mode and play around with boot selects. Unfortunately, i've had no luck in booting anything from my (IBM) dds2 tape drive or from my AIX cd on a (non-IBM) cd drive. My ethernet card sits adj to the power supply, is about 4" by 4" with a card-edge connector about 1" long. If this is what you need I have a spare from my 7012-370 which you can have. I tried to give this box away in my recent 'garagesale' but no takers. -nick oliviero