Hi Chris, This is a Linux box - an x86 box in fact. As far as I remember they even have VGA pin headers on the board inside. Boot it up with the serial console active and see if you get anything meaningful, but I doubt it. I opened one up for the same purpose last year but I don't have it to hand anymore and I don't remember what the exact platform was. Open it and you may be able to connect to it by other means than the serial port - which I found to be of little use for troubleshooting. It could be something as trivial as the box stuck in fsck prompt because of a corrupted FS. They do have dual partitions, but I'm not sure whether they can actually fail over, or is the second partition used only during f/w upgrades.
Is the statement about copy protection actually confirmed? I would try finding someone with another S200 and copying the CF card first. And yes, they will want ££££,££s, and it got worse since the Microsemi acquisition. I have witnessed multiple S2xx deaths. Usually PSU fail, but death on power cycle is not uncommon either. Thanks, Wojciech On 24 September 2015 at 09:46, Mike Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chrs, > Not an expert… but usually computer systems give some indication of why > a boot is failing on the systems console. The S200 is probably a unix based > system as it has utilities such as SSH. TELNET. HTTP. So you could try > connecting an RS232 terminal , or telnet’ing to its console server if it is > managed by one. Then power it on again and see what the symptoms are. If > there is no output, then it is a probably hardware problem and you will > need to either have it serviced, or dig into it yourself . I doubt however > that it is user serviceable. > There are troubleshooting steps in the user manual, so I suggest you look > at those. If you don’t have the manual handy, see > < > http://iecitel.com/resources/ntp%20network/S250/SyncServer%20S2xx%20User%20Guide.pdf > > > > Have fun > Mike > > > Le 24 sept. 2015 à 09:21, G1FEF <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > > Do we have any Symmetricom experts on this list? > > > > I've had a Symmetricom Syncserver S200 GPS+PPS with rubidium clock > running for several years until we had a power cut and the UPS battery > failed, on powering back up it won't boot at all. > > > > I suspect the flash is corrupt but they protect it in some way, so one > can't just copy the o/s onto a new card, and the company want ££££'s to fix > it for me! > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Chris > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > > "The main function of a modern police force is filling in forms." > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- - Wojciech Owczarek _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
