Hi,
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 06:50:35PM -0000, Robert Jarratt wrote:
Does
anyone know how to extract one of these from the flash card?
I've got a 900TM booting from flash with version 2.4 WWENG2.SYS on the
card,
but I can't figure out how to copy it off the
card for another 900TM.
I obtained a second 900TM that didn't have a card included. I won a
"Mitsubishi
Melcard 2MB F?E?PROM MEMORY Card
MF82M1-77DAT01" on e-bay, which is
identical to what DEC provided, and successfully booted and loaded
wweng2.sys
version 2.2, which I believe is the 1646592 byte
version supervinx also
has.
My 900TM with 2.4 works better than the other one booting 2.2. If anyone
has
any info on reading WWENG2.SYS 2.4 off my working
unit, please let me
know.
I tried looking for one of these cards on Ebay in the UK and drew a blank. I
tried a few alternative searches too, but still got nowhere. Is there
anything else I could look for that would do the same thing? If so, how do
you get the software onto the card?
Thanks
Rob
I found some discussion of card compatibility here:
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.vms/2004-10/1901.html
You should be able to hit CTRL-B a couple times on the first serial
port during power up to get to a ">>>" prompt, then do something
like this:
>> INIT FROM ETHER IMAGE WWENG2 UPDATE
FLASH DELAY 0
I had some trouble getting to the ">>>" prompt successfully, but
once there, had no trouble netbooting and updating the flash.
Mark
I have the other card version mentioned in the comp.os.vms article - The Mitsubishi
MELCARD MF82M1-GBDAT01 and I can say it also works in the DECserver 900TM. There are a
few on the US Ebay site right now.
<http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_kw=MITSUBISHI+2MB+CARD>
As far as I know, the only way to get the data flashed to the card is to get the DECserver
to boot online first, then run the previously mentioned command to flash the memory.
Also, there is no way that I know of to copy the data from the card to a file via the
DECserver. I assume you would have to have a PCMIA slot on a computer and use that to
read the card.
John H. Reinhardt