DEC Alpha 3000 Model 600
Rod Smallwood
rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com
Mon Sep 7 07:32:48 CDT 2015
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.
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