Alpha 3000/800

From: Stan Pietkiewicz <pietstan_at_rogers.com>
Date: Mon May 13 23:11:39 2002

I finally got some time to fire up one of my recent finds... an Alpha
3000/800. I mounted a DSP3107 (1gb scsi) inside the chassis, hooked up
the StorageWorks tower/floppy to the onboard SCSI controller, and
powered it up.
Magically, the VT320 displayed the POST messages, and the machine even
found the floppy (dkb100). I proceeded to boot from the NetBSD-Alpha
1.5.1 install floppy, and got to the sysinst menu, when I smelled the
ominous presence of escaping magic blue smoke (even though I didn't see
any!).. I powered everything off, let it sit for a few minutes while I
tried to find the source of the non-smoke.
When I powered the 3000 back up, it hung with FD displayed on the LED
display, with no output to the VT320...

Any ideas as to what might be cooked??

Thanks...

Stan
Received on Mon May 13 2002 - 23:11:39 BST