Peter, Thanks for the email. My challenge is that this machine has a floppy and a SCSI drive (both appear to be cabled correctly when I open things up) and yet neither show up when I do a "show device" from the console.
>>> show device VMS/VMB ULTRIX ADDR DEVTYP NUMBYTES RM/FX WP DEVNAM REV ------- ------ -------- ------ -------- ----- -- ------ --- ESA0 SE0 08-00-2B-16-58-20 Therefore, when I issue a "boot" command, it's trying to boot from the network and not from the floppy I currently have inserted. Any ideas on troubleshooting I can do to determine why it isn't seeing things on the SCSI bus? (I'm assuming this is a SCSI floppy - please let me know if I'm incorrect in that assumption.) Thanks, Bryan On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:30 AM, Peter Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone. I'm hoping that one of the VAX experts out there can help > me > > figure out how to get my 3100 booting. I managed to cobble together the > > necessary cabling and was able to run a "TEST 50" from the serial > console. > > Unfortunately my Google-fu isn't sufficient to help me figure out what > the > > results mean. Here is what I'm getting below. Any ideas where my > problem > > lies? > > > > >>> test 50 > > > > > > > > KA42-A V1.3 > > ID 08-00-2B-16-58-20 > > > > MONO 0000.0001 > > ? CLK 0000.0005 > > NVR 0000.0001 > > ? DZ 0000.4001 > > 00000001 00000001 00000001 00004001 00000000 00000000 > > MEM 0010.0001 > > 01000000 > > MM 0000.0001 > > FP 0000.0001 > > IT 0000.0001 > > SYS 0000.0001 > > 8PLN 0000.0001 V1.3 > > NI 0100.0001 > > >>> > > > > Hi Bryan, > > This looks pretty good. There are no double question marks which would > indicate possibly more serious failures. > > ? CLK suggests the time of year clock is not set because the battery is > bad. > (I suggest removing the battery before it leaks.) > > ? DZ usually means that one of the serial ports could not be tested (the > one > you have the console terminal connected to). > > The other results are all good. > > What happens when you give it a BOOT command? > > Regards, > Peter Coghlan. >
