IBM RS/6k

From: Pat Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Wed Feb 6 15:34:01 2002

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Doc wrote:

> Hmm. I was thinking that the 550 needed RAM cards in pairs, and I was
> right. However, the diagnostics info says the 55L doesn't. Cool. I
> may even have spare RAM cards, as well as the SIMMs. I'll look, if you
> want. No CD drive? Finding bootable CD drives are a PITA. Plextor is
> your friend. ;)
> It sounds like an excellent machine.

No CD drive of course. As far as SCSI cd-drives, I have a drive from a
Sun SS5, a PowerMAC 5260, and a HP SureStore 2x6 CD-R drive I can try.
Any suggestions on which one to try first?

> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Pat Finnegan wrote:
>
> > One of the hard drives (which I have yet to determine the size of) was
> > completely unhooked from the scsi bus and power, so it's probably either a
> > spare or broken..
>
> Full-height or 1"?

All 1" SCSI drives. I'm gonna hook that unhooked one up to my PC to try
and see at least how big it is..

I tried hooking a serial terminal up to it, and booting w/o the
framebuffer card (or KB or mouse), but no luck. I was using 9600baud, 1
stop bit, no parity, should I try something else? Any ideas on what kind
of monitor I could interface to it?

> > Any ideas on where to get a bootable tape so I can reset root's password
> > (haven't booted it yet, still gotta try that first.)
>
> Um. You'll need to boot far enough to find what version you're
> running, anyway. The version on tape has to be a fair match to get
> maintenance mode.

Oh yea, can you send me the pinout for that front keyswitch before I
accidentally kill it trying to drill out the pins? Thanks. (Also any
guidelines for how to drill out the pins would be nice.)

-- Pat
Received on Wed Feb 06 2002 - 15:34:01 GMT

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