[rescue] Troubleshooting thoughts

[Lionel Peterson]

Wonder what SATA to SCSI adapter this fellow used 12 years ago...

 https://forums.atariage.com/gallery/album/998-axil-320-with-ssd/

Anyone know?

Was it a god-awful expensive device or something more reasonably-priced?

Ken

> On Feb 21, 2025, at 13:18, William Barnett-Lewis via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> 
> Got the Axil 320 and CPUs in today.
> I've plugged in my dell flatscreen with a sun type 13w3->VGA adapter,
> Type 5 keyboard and mouse, and ethernet cable. There are 5 memory
> DIMMS (one in slot 0 marked 64mb, others unmarked). I pulled the
> single 90mhz/256cache cpu and put in the 2 147s. I haven't gotten the
> ZuluSCSI yet but hoped to get to the prompt.
> 
> No such luck.
> 
> I do get a single beep from the keyboard, all the led's flash once and
> then nothing more. The most concerning thing is that one of the three
> fans - the one closest to where the drives are - isn't spinning - and
> there is as sort of undulating sound like going up and down. I let it
> run for a good 15 minutes in case of dead NVRAM but still nothing came
> up on video.
> 
> I presume the next thing is to get a serial cable from A/B on the back
> to my PC? Anything special I'll need for that? Then just any linux
> terminal emulator should do.
> 
> William
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> like no-one is watching.
>                Alex White
> 
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