Re: Dead Ultras.....

From: Michael Laajanen (michael_laajanen_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/25/05

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    Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:06:24 +0200

    HI,

    Steve wrote:
    > Two in fact, been idle for some time...
    >
    > Booted them, or rather not, both failed. I hooked up a terminal and set
    > all diags to max, this is the summary.
    >
    > Ultra 30, allegedly 512mb, can't make it's mind up whether it's in fact
    > 256mb or 384mb. POST tells me DIMM failure in different slots everytime,
    > include ones with no modules in! With the occasional Ecache failure too.
    > Booting hangs at booting the disk. Well it did, now it seems to be
    > looping full POST and diags.....
    >
    > Ultra 60, passes POST, hangs after memory initialisation with a solid
    > cursor. I managed to somehow get Netbsd on it but now it's back to the
    > block cursor. The oddity here is POST (or diags) lists scsi device 3 as:
    >
    > scsi disk tape scsi disk tape
    >
    > Instead of:
    >
    > scsi disk tape
    >
    > Bad term?
    >
    > Anyway, anyone help before I junk them and get an Octane!
    >
    Why junk then, get an Octane also :)

    /michael

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