Thanks to Dr Tom Blinn and Selden E Ball for their welcome input.
Unfortunately I have not completely got to the bottem of this, partly
because one of the systems has failed in a different manner, I will next
forward a further question in the hope that someone can help.
I finally got a serial port (and not laptop emulation) to work but never
got the graphics card to work properly. The serial terminal gave me an
unexpected choice of two questions. 1) Multi Initiator Config and 2)
Tape based one button disaster ecovery. Selecting 1) gives me just the
option to change SCSI card ID or 2) Status of Reset SCSI Bus. I am
looking for the option to change the terminator setting. It is being
suggested that the controller is non-standard, it was bought in a hurry
and I am chasing the supplier to determine its origin.
The good news, despite not being able to reset the termination, is that
I can now see the disks at "run bios". The bad news is that one system
is now not powering up completely, removing all cards does not clear the
problem.
Regards,
Tom Kempster
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----- Original message -----
From: "Thomas Edward Kempster" <tekempster_at_fastmail.fm>
To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:06:23 -0700
Subject: KZPEA and DS20E
I am trying to install a KZPEA and need to run the "run bios" command at
the >>> prompt to change the termination. I can "show bios" and both
channels show but when I "run bios pka0" the system runs and then
returns to the prompt. I have tried Control A despite not being prompted
but that does not help. I have connected a serial monitor and removed
the graphic card but none of this has helped.
Can anyone help please?
Regards,
Tom Kempster
Received on Mon Aug 15 2005 - 14:23:50 NZST