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Article #858Re: Sun 4/110 LEDS
From: Hello Kittyhawk
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 00:00
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In article <7c0ebs$gu$1@news.latrobe.edu.au>, Chris Fletcher <fletch@latrobe.edu.au> wrote: |Volker Borchert (bt@Gaia.teknon.de) wrote: | |<SNIP!> | |: |> through RS232, then I'm hosed! Basically when I turn it on it just prints |: |> a y on the terminal screen and does nothing else. Can anybody help with |: |> this? |: |: If it really is a 4/110, it has a switch labelled "NORM/DIAG" on the |: front panel. Power down, switch to "DIAG" and try again. Be prepared |: to wait half an hour or so for the extended self test to complete, |: depending on how much RAM it has. | |This is a followup to my followup! :-) |I left the machine on for about half and hour and when I returned it, the |DIAG LEDS displayed the following: |(The left bit is the top LED on the VME card) | |01001000 | |Unfortunantly this is meaningless to me as I can't get the LED specs for |the 4/110. when the CPU is in the slot, the topmost LED is the most significant bit - this error is test 0x8, which tests the TOD clock interrupt. Bit 6 on says that an exception class error was detected. Serial port A is closest to be bottom, next to the SCSI connector - you need a null modem to a 9600 bps terminal or pc with terminal emulator software. The diagnostic routines should be pumping out yards of test gunge to the serial port (which should be visible unless the baud rate has been changed in the NVRAM). -- ,u, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario 1 416 699 1868 a \i\ Internet: bdb@gts.org Uucp: ...!gts!bdb `/o/-e carbon is finished as a molecule, we are on tuareg time now _\ >_ - Sandy Bull
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4671,625872c03fc6cb62 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4671,public X-Google-Thread: f88e1,625872c03fc6cb62 X-Google-Attributes: gidf88e1,public X-Google-Thread: 10d053,625872c03fc6cb62 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d053,public X-Google-Thread: f6653,625872c03fc6cb62 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6653,public From: bdb@GTS.Net (Hello Kittyhawk) Subject: Re: Sun 4/110 LEDS Date: 1999/03/10 Message-ID: <F8E3LB.9Bv@GTS.Net> X-Deja-AN: 453459354 References: <7busr0$ktf$1@news.latrobe.edu.au> <7c0702$92l@Zeus.teknon.de> <7c0bsb$vob$1@news.latrobe.edu.au> <7c0ebs$gu$1@news.latrobe.edu.au> Organization: G.T.S., Toronto, Ontario Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,aus.computers.sun,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc