Well, it seems that my Series/1 is not working right. I plugged it in and
turned it on, and everything(CPU, FD, small HD and I/O unit) SEEMS to be
working OK. Except that it won't boot. I took all the cards except CPU, FD
controller and 4978 terminal I/O cards out and setup the floppy drive as
the primary IPL device. Threw in a floppy labeled IPL(unknown if it really
is), set the CPU to auto-IPL on primary device, the LED's on the
programmer's panel lit up and did a few things and then it freezes(I waited
a around 15 minutes before I gave up) with LED's 8, 9, 10, 13 and 15 on.
Nothing happens at all, when the Series/1 is powered up the 4978 terminal
displays a "=" in the top left corner and does nothing. Right now I'm not
sure if the problem is in the CPU or floppy drive(I haven't had time to
clean out the floppy drive). Does anyone have any idea what's going wrong
or know someone who would know? I think the system was originally setup to
IPL from one of it's four 200MB hard drives, which are still up in the
garage(and I can't plug it in because of only 1 220v outlet. not good with
three racks needing power) along with two tape drives and another 4959
expansion unit. Well, at least it was free...
-JR
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Received on Sun Dec 21 1997 - 00:47:52 GMT