[rescue] Troubleshooting thoughts

[Mike Spooner]

That's an ACARD AEC-7732.

http://www.acard.com/index.files/Page728.htm

- Mike

On 21 February 2025 21:19:21 GMT, Lionel Peterson via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>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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