>I have connected up my Vax 3100 M38 that has no disk drives to a 486 running
>windows 3.1 via a MMJ six conductor cable to the serial ports. When I power
>up the 3100 I recieve the following on the 486 terminal emulator:
>
>KA42-B V1.3
>
>F...E...D...C...B...A...9...8...7...6...5...4...3_..2_..1?..
3_ and 2_ may be ignored, the _ indicates that the device isn't
installed, which is normal for 3 and 2.
1? means there is a problem with the Ethernet connection, see below...
> ? C 0080 0000.4001
This means the serial line controller test failed. I believe this is
because you have no mouse and keyboard attached.
> ? 7 80A0 0000.4001
You have no disk attached to the SCSI-A bus.
> ? 6 80A1 0000.4001
You have no disk attached to the SCSI-A bus.
>?? 1 00C0 0011.700E
You have the AUI Ethernet port selected, and nothing attached to it.
Here is a short table of this power-up stuff:
Power-Up Symbols:
---------------------
.... Device tested successfully or it may have a soft error
?.. Device has a hard error
_.. Option device not installed or device is not tested
*.. Option device installed, but its ROM code has not been executed
Codes
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F MONO Base video
E CLK Time of year clock
D NVR Nonvolatile RAM
C DZ Serial line controller
B MEM Memory
A MM Memory Management Unit
9 FP Floating Point Unit
8 IT Interval Timer
7 SCSI-A SCSI-A controller on MSC module
6 SCSI-B SCSI-B controller on MSC module
5 SYS Interrupt controller and Ethernet ID ROM
4 8PLN Option Module ( 8 plane graphics)
3 Option Module
2 Option Module
1 NI Ethernet circuits
