jarkko.teppo skrev:
>On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:49:25AM +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
>> found that it had a 68040. I thus deducted that it must be a 9000/380. Has
>> this machine been upgraded, or did HP simply not bother to identify their
>> machines any closer than the series (in this case 9000/300)?
>If you look how easily you can pull out the board then it actually makes
>sense. Just provide a box with DIO-II/I slots and basically you can build
>anything from 310 to 380 inside. If the main board looks like this:
>http://www.tec.puv.fi/~s99137/kuvat/380takaa2.jpg
>http://www.tec.puv.fi/~s99137/kuvat/380takaa.jpg
>Then you have a 380. The machine in those crummy pictures has a DIO-I
>expansion cab.
So does mine, if that's the card with the ugly card-edge connector into which
the additional LANCE board is plugged.
>> In any case, it came without keyboard, and I read that in order to switch
>> it over to serial terminal mode, one would have to perform a certain
>> manoeuvre via the keyboard. Bloody well thought out, HP! Is there no way to
>> use a serial terminal without any HIL keyboard involved?
>There might be a way. Start out by removing the framebuffer and then
>try some serial magic.
Ah, so it's the same route as with the DECstation. Great.
>> The machine starts up and beeps a little. It's got not drives installed,
>> but there's a 50-pin "Centronics" connector marked SCSI/FS-HPIB. What is
>> FS-HPIB? Doesn't sound like anything I'd like to feed into my SCSI devices.
>The machine can do Fast HP-IB or SCSI from the mainboard. The SCSI connector
>goes directly to the main board via a flat cable but the FS-HPIB has some
>electronics just behind the connector. I'd guess you have the SCSI-version.
It's plugged straight in. Good for me.
Now, should I just run NetBSD or is HPUX any more sufferable on the 380 than
on the 832?
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Received on Fri May 18 2001 - 14:19:24 BST
