Yes! It was very much like Antonio suggested, a good deal of previously
strangely behaving XBIA and XBIB boards were still working fine given
the proper environment.
I replaced the backplanes/cages for both XMI and VAXBI. I figured if
nothing else, the set I put so neatly into boxes last year would be
less exposed to dust and grime over the last year, and I did remember
that one of the vaxen, i.e., this particular one did behave strangely
even last year. Then step by step debugging with a little bit of
board reseating and everything works now. Yeah! This is my second
VAX6450 going online.
Did I mention that one of them is now a VAXvector 6450 (with one vector
processor right now because I still don't have more than one of the
little cables.) It's going to be a VAXvector 6440 V2 (BTW: how was
the number of vector CPUs officially counted?) and the other will
be a VAX 6460. Both of them have 512 MB memory, one has a KDM70 with
an SA600 with 8 RA90s the other now has the KDB50 with one RA90 and
one RA92 in the "basement" of it's cabinet.
I'm about to connecting the second VAX to the star coupler. And
then all I need to do is fix the HSC90 that still gives me a k.ci
error with status 111 (what the heck does that mean?) Then the
HSC90 will plug in the port "B" of all the RA90s and RA92 and uh
yes, there are also the RA81 and RA82, which I can't wait to
actually use.
My basement is going to be cleaned out now. It looks nice with two
VAX 6000 and an SA600 shoulder to shoulder.
Ah, yes, now I have an XMI and a VAXBI backplane cage spare. I
will get rid of it one way or the other. If you want either or
both, let me know. They are free for the taking or shipping. I'm
sure that only one of them is actually defect AND I'm sure the
defect could be fixed (I'd probably go with round in the
dishwasher or so.) If you need parts from one, that's fine too.
To know what's on them go to my VAX 6000 anatomy page. If I
don't hear by soon, I will screw off all the parts and let the
bulky stuff hit the dumpster.
regards
-Gunther
Here is the transcript of a working VAX 6450 selftesting:
>>> INIT
c123456789 0123456789 0123456789 01234567#
F E D C B A 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 NODE #
A A . . M M M M . P P P P P TYP
o o . . + + + + . + + + + + STF
. . . . . . . . . E E E E B BPD
. . . . . . . . . + + + + + ETF
. . . . . . . . . E E E E B BPD
. . . . . . . . . . + . + . + . XBI D +
. . . . . . . . . + . . . . + . XBI E +
. . . . A4 A3 A2 A1 . . . . . . ILV
. . . . 128 128 128 128 . . . . . . 512 Mb
ROM0 = V3.00 ROM1 = V3.00 EEPROM = 2.03/3.07 SN = AG94408846
>>> SHOW ALL
Type Rev
1+ KA64A (8082) 000A
2+ KA64A (8082) 000C
3+ KA64A (8082) 000C
4+ KA64A (8082) 000A
5+ KA64A (8082) 000B
7+ MS65A (4001) 0084
8+ MS65A (4001) 0084
9+ MS65A (4001) 0084
A+ MS65A (4001) 0084
D+ DWMBA/A (2001) 0002
E+ DWMBA/A (2001) 0002
XBI D
1+ DWMBA/B (2107) 000A
3+ KDB50 (010E) 142C
5+ DEBNI (0118) 0300
XBI E
1+ DWMBA/B (2107) 000A
6+ TBK70 (410B) 0305
Current Primary: 1
/NOENABLED-
/NOVECTOR_ENABLED-
/NOPRIMARY-
F E D C B A 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 NODE #
. . . . A4 A3 A2 A1 . . . . . . ILV
. . . . 128 128 128 128 . . . . . . 512 Mb
/INTERLEAVE:DEFAULT
/SCOPE /SPEED: 9600 /NOBREAK
English
XMI:D BI:5 08-00-2B-0B-23-AE
DEFAULT /XMI:E /BI:6 CSA1
TAPE /XMI:E /BI:6 CSA1
ETH0 /XMI:D /BI:6 ET0
>>>
--
Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow_at_regenstrief.org
Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org
Received on Sat Jun 01 2002 - 19:17:33 BST