[rescue] Troubleshooting thoughts

[Alan Perry]

I fired up my 320 (for the first time in a couple years).

I tried taking one of the (6) DIMMs out and the system booted fine. It 
turns out that I have 2.5.1 installed on it.

I also tried to boot it with a Ross 133MHz hyperSPARC mbus module. The 
PROM is Axil 320 specific (it says "320" on the label) and is version 
2.19. It does not boot:

Trap # 9 sfsr 3a6 sfar 4000000
Ross afsr 0 Ross afar fc47c0
Data Access ExceptionTrap # 9 sfsr 126 sfar a1480002
Ross afsr 0 Ross afar fc47c0
Data Access ExceptionTrap # 9 sfsr 126 sfar a1480002

... repeated until I powered down the system.

alan

On 2/21/25 1:40 PM, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
>
> Unknown at this time. It did arrive with a Ross 90 MHz 256 cache CPU 
> installed. I'll put it back in first when I get home from picking up 
> my son from his welding class.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 15:35 Alan Perry <alanp at snowmoose.com> wrote:
>
>     I can try stuff in my 320 (like an odd number of memory) to see if
>     it works there.
>
>     What is the PROM version?
>
>     alan
>
>>     On Feb 21, 2025, at 13:08, William Barnett-Lewis via rescue
>>     <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>     That's a really good thought. I don't have any previous
>>     experience with mbus machines, so that didn't occur to me. I'll
>>     try that when I get home in a bit.
>>
>>     Thanks!
>>
>>     William
>>
>>     On Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 14:56 Mike Spooner via rescue
>>     <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>>
>>         William,
>>
>>         I would try it with just a single CPU module at a time (both
>>         of them, one at a time) - MBus modules are all very old now,
>>         and I've had an MBus module die completely before.
>>
>>         Regards,
>>         Mike
>>
>>
>>         On 21 February 2025 19:17:08 GMT, 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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