[rescue] OT: Dead Personal Iris 4D/35 :(

Brian Wheeler bdwheele at indiana.edu
Thu Jan 31 09:31:01 CST 2002


All this talk of Irix 3.3 reminded me of a dead personal iris machine I
have.

Here are the symptoms: 

	* Fault light comes on and stays on.
	* Back fan spins up happily
	* Hard disk light comes on, but no spin.

I read somewhere (I think on "this old sgi") that the serial port for
the 4D/35 was standard PC compatible.  I plugged it into a terminal
(both with and without a null modem) at 9600,N,8,1  but nothing ever
came up.

Is it really dead, or will some magic dance possibly bring it back?  



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