[rescue] Troubleshooting thoughts

[Lionel Peterson]

The posting is 12 years old... (2013)

Thanks

Ken

> On Feb 21, 2025, at 18:19, Mike Spooner via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> ...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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