On Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 allisonp(a)world.std.com (Allison J Parent) wrote: <Well, I got the RD52 external HD on my MicroVAX-I working tonight. I swapp <the blown power supply with a new surplus one. Had to redrill the case, but Isn't a VAXstation-I considered a MicroVAX-I? One of the FAQs that I read made this reference, and it's a lot faster to type "uVAX" then "VAXstation" <g> was two boards and memory at the time was either 512k or 1mb per >>board and there was only 8 slots in a ba23. so the typical line up was cpu, >>4 memory cards, an rqdx2 disk and a DHV or DZV serial card. the problem >>was that would put the power supply 20% over the top! This makes some sense. One of the first things that I had to fix was a melted power supply cable between the power supply (375w) and the backplane. Here is what I can see as the configuration: 4mb RAM, one DHV serial card, DEQNA Ethernet, a M9047 board (??), M7512 buss extender, an RQDX1, MSV11-Q memory, and 2 processor boards. I know that the MSV11 is only a 1mb board, but the bootloader reports about 3.5mb of RAM. The model tag on the back lists "610QK-XZ changed to VS20C-R2". It also has 2 internal floppy drives and one internal RD52 hard drive. <1. Since I don't know what is on the drive in the first place, how < do I avoid a permanent destruction of the file system yet still < correcting the problem? < <2. If <1> is not possible, how do I go about fixing the problem. I < could not find a program named "fdisk", so either it had been < deleted from the root partition, or it's under another name. Would I accomplish this by logging-in to the system? Unfortunately, I don't have the root password. How can I get around this? <3. The only way that I could get the drive to respond is to put < the cable in the middle connector (J2). The drive did not < respond at all in J1 or J3. There must be jumpers somewhere < that govern this, like on the buss extender card, but I have < no jumper map. The "J2" refers to the J2 on the external RD52 drive case. The buss extender is brought out to a DB50 to position "F" on the bulkhead. On the RD52 case, there are three DB50 connectors, J1 to J3. The drive only responds when using J2. Is this OK? How is this changed? <4. {unrelated} Every time I restart the uVAX, it complains about < the time needing to be reset. Do the uVAXen have internal < clock batteries that have to be recharged/replaced? << TIA for any help! or vs2000 box). Also you can use any three cell pack for cordless >>phones that fit. Are you referring to the console connector on the bulkhead? On this unit, there is no battery pack. It only has two ribbon cables going to the processor boards. With this additional info, what do you recommend to do now? Thanks again for the help! Rich Cini/WUGNET rcini(a)msn.com Rich