[SunRescue] So I'm trying to get this Axil 220/245 "up", and I can't...

[Dave McGuire]

  Is the cdrom drive terminated?  If so, try removing the terminator
and trying again.

  Yes, I know that sounds crazy, but I've run literally hundreds of Axil
245s...Their scsi busses are just a little bit quirky.

          -Dave McGuire

On April 14, Ken Hansen wrote:
> Scenario:
> 
> Previously working Axil 245 workstation (SS/5-85 MHz "clone", w/72 pin RAM,
> stacked SBUS) sat in my basement for a few years ( gawd, I can't belive
> that...) and now won't boot.
> 
> Description:
> 
> On power up, probes memory, properly reports 96 Meg (6x16 Meg SIMMs from an
> LX), then identifies all SBUS cards (integrated and optional/plug-in), then
> it tests all the memory - all 96 megs test fine (one bank of 32 tested, then
> remaining bank of 64 tested).
> 
> Then nothing.
> 
> What I tried:
> 
> I can stop-a the machine and probe-scsi (fine), printenv (fine), test
> /memory (fine), test scsi (fine), but as soon as I issue a boot command
> (boot disk, boot cdrom, or just boot) the machine just sits there...
> 
> The HD is a Micropolis 1 Gig HD, Mfg. in 1993 - I suspected that was
> bad/questionable, so I removed the HD from the SCSI chain, same result. It
> hangs when it tries to boot an OS.
> 
> **ANY** thoughts?
> 
> A short while ago I was unable to boot cdrom, but the machine booted an old
> Red Hat Linux image (R5.2 Beta, IIRC) that was already on the HD.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Ken
> 
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