On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Doc wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Pat Finnegan wrote:
>
> > 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..
>
> Nice. All the 530s and 2 of the 550s I've seen had full-height 5.25
> drives. Noisy & expensive to spin.
They don't seem to spin up when stuck in a peecee (good old IBM
extensions i'm sure). However, they seem to be 2G.. so decent size.
> > 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?
>
> Service mode. You'll have to whack that lock before you can do much
> of anything. Your terminal settings are right.
Well, it's 'whacked' -- i poped the cylinder off of the switch part, and
turned the switch by hand (verified, it doesn't boot when it should be in
'Secure' mode). Still, not a drop out of either of the two serial ports.
I've checked them with a RatShack RS-232 led box, and everthing's 'wired
up' correctly it seems. Even tried two different null-modems with them.
Right now, the last thing that the LED display shows is '522'. (which just
stays on there, doesn't disappear)
> There should be a paper
> label on the adapter's bulkhead bracket with something like "1-1" or
> "1-4" on it. Look it up in the MicroChannel Devices pdf at
> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/library/hardware_docs/
> That ought to give you sync & refresh rates.
I've got a 1-9: FC 2768 'POWER Gt3i Graphics Subsystem'. Any chance that
a PS/2 XGA card will work? I think I can get one of those, but I'm
doubting it'll work because of microcode...
-- Pat
Received on Thu Feb 07 2002 - 13:19:06 GMT