[rescue] Troubleshooting thoughts

[Mike Spooner]

...or maybe the older 7720?

On 21 February 2025 23:58:44 GMT, Mike Spooner via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>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
>>> --
>>> Live like you will never die, love like you've never been hurt, dance
>>> like no-one is watching.
>>>                Alex White
>>> 
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