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- From: flowers@memstvx1.memst.edu (Harry Flowers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Need help with MV2000
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.093107.4597@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 15:31:07 GMT
- References: <1992Dec12.210756.993@dragon.com> <12DEC199223041425@spades.aces.com>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.dec
- Organization: Memphis State University
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- In article <12DEC199223041425@spades.aces.com>, gavron@spades.aces.com
- (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec12.210756.993@dragon.com>, cts@dragon.com
- > (Charles T. Smith, Jr.) writes...
- > #I recently inherited a MicroVAX 2000... any documentation is long gone.
- > #This beastie has a thinwire port; however, it does not appear to be
- > #enabled. VMS boots ok; the only devices are the disk and the terminal
- > #ports.
- > #
- > #Can anyone give me any hints on what it takes to enable the Ethernet
- > #port? Which test F...E...D, etc, indicates the Ethernet, or how
- > #to read the TEST 50 output?
- >
- > The MicroVAX 2000 has a thinwire ethernet port which is enabled and
- > cannot be disabled. It test as TEST 1. If your boot shows:
- > F...E...D... 1... then your ethernet is ok. If 1 shows as ? or _
- > then you've got an error. Type >>> TEST 1 and see what you get.
- > The errors generaly mean (0000.7001 or some such) that you didn't
- > hook it up to an active dempr port or thinwire network correectly.
-
- You should also know that, though all MicroVAX 2000's had an external
- thinwire interface, the base model did not include the actual ethernet
- interface. You might want to open it up and see if it's attached (the
- box isn't very easy to open and harder to close, though).
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