fredv@orion.oac.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian) (04/10/90)
I have a DN3000 with both a RING and an Ethernet interface. I would like to remove the RING interface and only use Ethernet. However after removing the board, running "CONFIG", turning the machine off and on, it still wants to perform a RING test upon startup and fails with an error message. Apollo customer support tells me that this is a hardware problem, however today I performed the same test with another DN3000 with the same result. What step am I missing here? Another option is to make the ethernet the primary interface so that commands such as "lcnode" use ethernet rather than ring. Eventhough I specify ethernet to be the primary device in CONFIG, "lcnode" still uses ring after booting. Thanks in advance for any hints Fred Velijanian UC Irvine fredv@vmsd.oac.uci.edu
scott@labtam.oz (Scott Colwell) (04/11/90)
From article <26212A65.20884@orion.oac.uci.edu>, by fredv@orion.oac.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian): > I have a DN3000 with both a RING and an Ethernet interface. I would like to > remove the RING interface and only use Ethernet. However after removing the > board, running "CONFIG", turning the machine off and on, it still wants to > perform a RING test upon startup and fails with an error message. Apollo > customer support tells me that this is a hardware problem, however today I > performed the same test with another DN3000 with the same result. What step > am I missing here? Old boot roms may be your problem. I had a DN3000 (not a DN3010) with old boot roms that I upgraded from ring to ethernet and had problems with the self test in the roms failing while trying to test the ring card. The old roms were version 3 and the ones that work correctly for me are version 5. I don't know what version 4 roms do but later than version 5 are supposed to work also. My boot rom is marked BOOT J10 08475 5 <--- this number is the version If you want to test this without getting new roms, boot the machine manually by typing 'EX AEGIS' (pre SR10) or 'EX DOMAIN_OS' at the debugger prompt '>'. This was how I operated for some months until we figured what the problem was. From vn Wed Apr 11 13:08:58 1990 Subject: Re: DN3000 ring/ethernet configuration question Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo References: <26212A65.20884@orion.oac.uci.edu> From article <26212A65.20884@orion.oac.uci.edu>, by fredv@orion.oac.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian): > I have a DN3000 with both a RING and an Ethernet interface. I would like to > remove the RING interface and only use Ethernet. However after removing the > board, running "CONFIG", turning the machine off and on, it still wants to > perform a RING test upon startup and fails with an error message. Apollo > customer support tells me that this is a hardware problem, however today I > performed the same test with another DN3000 with the same result. What step > am I missing here? Old boot roms may be your problem. I had a DN3000 (not a DN3010) with old boot roms that I upgraded from ring to ethernet and had problems with the self test in the roms failing while trying to test the ring card. The old roms were version 3 and the ones that work correctly for me are version 5. I don't know what version 4 roms do but later than version 5 are supposed to work also. My boot rom is marked BOOT J10 08475 5 <--- this number is the version If you want to test this without getting new roms, boot the machine manually by typing 'EX AEGIS' (pre SR10) or 'EX DOMAIN_OS' at the debugger prompt '>'. This was how I operated for some months until we figured what the problem was. -- Scott Colwell Labtam Information Systems P/L net: scott@labtam.oz.au Melbourne, Australia phone: +61-3-587-1444