[rescue] Something I found at work...

Joshua D. Boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Jun 28 15:28:24 CDT 2001


That machine is usually refered to as the F20.  It runs HP/UX 10.20 I
think, but it has been around a long time.  I'm still trying to learn HP
hardware myself.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 ed at the7thbeer.com wrote:

> An HP 9000/817S is questionable shape.  Anyone familiar with this box?  I
> know it can't be *too* ancient, as we had support on it as recently as
> 1997 or so.  But I can't seem to get any decent console output(I found the
> CPU, a serial port mux breakout + terminal, a SCSI SE and misc. cables).
> I get dropped into a 
> 
> CM>
> 
> prompt if I do a ctrl-b after poweron, but it looks like I'm being dropped
> into a config screen for the serial mux, not the ISL/IPL.  
> 
> Clues? :) (dirty from digging this thing out of the shop floor, but happy
> with my find)
> 
> ===============================
> Ed Mitchell (ed<-at->the7thbeer.com)
> Finger for PGP public key
> ===============================
> This boxen's uptime stats....
>  12:37pm  up 19 day(s),  1:45,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.01
> 
> 
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