[rescue] Nice older equipment I got... a little input

[Steve Sandau]

Just made another RS/6000 null modem serial cable (to connect to PC).
Pinout is:

  2-3
  3-2
  4-5
  5-4
6&8-20
  7-7
 20-6&8
 23-23

Kevin Loch wrote:
> 
> Andrew Weiss wrote:
> > settles on something like 587 or so... there seems to be plenty of drive
> 
> (from http://borg.ucsb.edu/howto/aix/AIX_LED_HowTo.html)
> 
> 587 Configuring a NETBIOS.
> 
> Try hooking up a terminal to the serial port(s) and see if one
> of them is set as the console.
> 
> This may not be your problem but,
> AIX is very bad about booting with the wrong/inacessable name
> servers in /etc/resolv.conf.  As a side note, when changing
> ip addresses on an AIX machine, always remove/rename /etc/resolv.conf
> first, run smit(ty), then recreate/rename resolv.conf. Do the same thing
> if you want
> to take a networked machine standalone temporarally.
> It will save you from alot of wasted time on dns timeouts.
> 
> KL
> 
> >
> > Machine 2... the troublemaker Sparc LX:
> >
> > I took 4 16MB sticks and 2 8 MB sticks from another Model 250 and replaced
> > the 24MB that was in this unit... this is probably my mistake (is there
> > some rule about interleaving?)
> >
> > Anyway boot screen thus: (and no it doesn't always appear)
> > <3D Logo> Sparcstation LX, Keyboard Present
> > ROM Rev 2.10, 96 MB memory installed, Serial #3187982
> > Ethernet address 8:0:20:1b:55:4d
> >
> > Testing Memory
> > Watchdog Reset
> > Data Access Exception
> > Type help for more information
> > OK Memory Address not Aligned
> > OK Memory Address not Aligned
> > OK Memory Address not Aligned
> > OK Watchdog Reset
> > OK Data Access Exception
> > OK CP Disabled
> > OK Data Access Exception
> > OK Illegal InsData Access Exception
> > OK Memory Address not Aligned
> > OK Illegal InsData Access Exception
> >
> > (various combos of the above plus one or two other things... but nothing
> > can be typed at this point.)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andrew
> >
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-- 
Steve Sandau, IS Technician
TMA Bath, Maine
ssandau at bath.tmac.com