ok, today i fired up the multia, a zillion issues, message "isa table
corrupted," the ide disk comes and goes and so the floppy, (my suspect
is that they are related to the isa bus corruption message,) the time
clock battery is dead, (hopefully it may recharge if I leave it
plugged in.)
"however" after long pains to remember various settings, changing at
least 6 scsi cables, trying a few terminators (active by the way,) it
finally booted vms 7.3 and tru64 5.1, but not red hat, linux is a
nightmare because the devices names change in the order cabled ;-(
on red hat I get a kernel panic, my suspicion is that it is missing
something from the ide disk related to the first error, and I'm not
going to try arc again, because I'm not feeling in the mood of the
hardware fixes to reset it
the more time is powered in and the better it goes, now boots on
graphics directly and remembers the settings ;-) it was the same with
the vax, they look dead, but you leave them plugged in for a while and
they resurrect, sooner or later
anyhow, this is the situation now, if anybody knows how to fix the isa
table corrupted, i can use suggestions
cheers,
daniel
;-)
On 2/10/13, Kari Uusim ki <uusimaki at exdecfinland.org> wrote:
Do you have any chance to test booting from a directly connected SCSI
CD-ROM or a disk?
Kari
On 10.2.2013 0:58, Michael Holmes wrote:
Forgive me if this is off topic, but I was reading about the fixes to
the VAXStation 4000 regarding chips.
I bought a multia several years back and I think it sucommed to being
moved to and from Germany and the States too many times.
I had it booting as a satelite off a DEC 3000 just fine, until this last
move.
I thought the battery had died and replaced it. (dead battery prevents
the bios from coming up)
I get the SRM console and i'd get MOP load message on the DEC 3000 but
the MULTIA just hangs after message about bootstrapping.
I heard something about an I/O chip that can go bad on the MB and was
wondering if anyone had any ideas that could be used to fix the MULTIA.
thanks
Mike
I'm going to experiment the next few days with a rewrite of my TCP/IP for RSX. This means that MIM can be a little unstable until I got the kinks ironed out.
Just as a heads-up...
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
If you're going to do something do it right. :)
-brian
On Feb 10, 2013, at 14:46, "Steve Davidson" <jeep at scshome.net> wrote:
I am pretty sure that a cup of gasoline will do quite nicely. Of course
if you are trying to make it impossible for anyone to identify it as
anything resembling a machine then you will probably need that much
anyway... :-)
-Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Brian Hechinger
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 14:07
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Mulita issue
On Feb 9, 2013, at 17:58, Michael Holmes
<mholmes10 at hotmail.com> wrote.
I heard something about an I/O chip that can go bad on the
MB and was wondering if anyone had any ideas that could be
used to fix the MULTIA.
The best tools to fix a Multia are a hammer, a quart of
gasoline and a match. :)
-brian
Mark,
Mind if I mirror the VAX SPLs on RHESUS / retrotron.sampsa.com?
At the moment I only have AXP ones, it'd be nice to have both.
Also, anyone got access to Integrity SPLs?
sampsa
On 10 Feb 2013, at 22:36, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
Sampsa,
It's on older spl's I have it on Slave but I'm not able to power that up at the mo. check out the urls of the older spl's posted to this recently.
Alternatively I can get slave powered up next week.
Mark.
http://www.wickensonline.co.ukhttp://declegacy.org.ukhttp://retrochallenge.nethttps://twitter.com/#!/%40urbancamo
On 10 Feb 2013, at 20:14, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
Anyone have a copy of this? Is it DECNETtable?
sampsa
I'd recommend KNO3 and a lot of it.
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Afzender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE
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Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Onderwerp: RE: [HECnet] Mulita issue
Verzonden: 10 februari 2013 20:46
I am pretty sure that a cup of gasoline will do quite nicely. Of course
if you are trying to make it impossible for anyone to identify it as
anything resembling a machine then you will probably need that much
anyway... :-)
-Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Brian Hechinger
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 14:07
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Mulita issue
On Feb 9, 2013, at 17:58, Michael Holmes
<mholmes10 at hotmail.com> wrote.
I heard something about an I/O chip that can go bad on the
MB and was wondering if anyone had any ideas that could be
used to fix the MULTIA.
The best tools to fix a Multia are a hammer, a quart of
gasoline and a match. :)
-brian
I am pretty sure that a cup of gasoline will do quite nicely. Of course
if you are trying to make it impossible for anyone to identify it as
anything resembling a machine then you will probably need that much
anyway... :-)
-Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Brian Hechinger
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 14:07
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Mulita issue
On Feb 9, 2013, at 17:58, Michael Holmes
<mholmes10 at hotmail.com> wrote.
I heard something about an I/O chip that can go bad on the
MB and was wondering if anyone had any ideas that could be
used to fix the MULTIA.
The best tools to fix a Multia are a hammer, a quart of
gasoline and a match. :)
-brian
Are you sure that nothing has changed on your setup since you booted the Multia successfully?
Any parameter? Anything of the HW?
On 10.2.2013 21:01, Michael Holmes wrote:
Yes I hooked up the vms install CDROM to the multia to boot and used the boot procedure with floppy and it pretty much stalls after the "starting bootstrap ..."message.
took the HD from the dec3000 with the image of the vms install disk and tried to boot from it with same results.
Bought a new (and expensive) floppy for it and same results.
Can flip to ARC and SRM consoles ok (not tried to boot under arc as I don't have win nt.)
---------
Just booted back up and it was at ARC console so I switched it over to SRM and power cycled it and now it's not powering the monitor.
Will have to find my serial cable and try to switch it.
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 10, 2013, at 4:06 AM, "Kari Uusim ki" <uusimaki at exdecfinland.org> wrote:
Do you have any chance to test booting from a directly connected SCSI CD-ROM or a disk?
Kari
On 10.2.2013 0:58, Michael Holmes wrote:
Forgive me if this is off topic, but I was reading about the fixes to
the VAXStation 4000 regarding chips.
I bought a multia several years back and I think it sucommed to being
moved to and from Germany and the States too many times.
I had it booting as a satelite off a DEC 3000 just fine, until this last
move.
I thought the battery had died and replaced it. (dead battery prevents
the bios from coming up)
I get the SRM console and i'd get MOP load message on the DEC 3000 but
the MULTIA just hangs after message about bootstrapping.
I heard something about an I/O chip that can go bad on the MB and was
wondering if anyone had any ideas that could be used to fix the MULTIA.
thanks
Mike
