IO92395@MAINE.BITNET (T.C.A. Venkatesan) (11/23/90)
Hi, Well, I am one of those who purchased a 030 Cube, during Businessland's recent firesale. It's a Cube with no hard disk. The machine reached me yesterday and I found that I could'nt get it working. When the power is turned on, it says 'Testing the System', then 'Loading from the Disk' and then 'SCSI error' and that's it. Nothing else happens. I called Businessland and they are not sure what's wrong. So I'm planning to send it back to them tomorrow for rectifying the problem. Meanwhile, I wondered, if any of you out there know what the problem is and what the solution might be; or if you have faced a similar problem. If so, please email me or post it as quickly as possible. I would like to avoid this business of sending it back to them etc. and all the accompanying delays, if I can. Thanks, Venky. PS: I think somebody had a similar problem and had mentioned it here some time back, though if I remember correctly, the machine started working despite mentioning 'SCSI error'. T.C.A.VENKATESAN IO92395@MAINE, DEPT. OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY, UNIV. OF MAINE, TEL.NO. : (207) 866-3274 (RES.) ORONO, MAINE 04469. (207) 581-1022 (OFF.)
keith@panews (12/01/90)
In article <90326.124515IO92395@MAINE.BITNET> IO92395@MAINE.BITNET (T.C.A. Venkatesan) writes: >When the power is turned >on, it says 'Testing the System', then 'Loading from the Disk' and then 'SCSI >error' and that's it. Nothing else happens. > >PS: I think somebody had a similar problem and had mentioned it here some time >back, though if I remember correctly, the machine started working despite >mentioning 'SCSI error'. > >T.C.A.VENKATESAN >IO92395@MAINE, >DEPT. OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY, >UNIV. OF MAINE, TEL.NO. : (207) 866-3274 (RES.) >ORONO, MAINE 04469. (207) 581-1022 (OFF.) We at IBM have had this problem. We haven't had time to figure it out (probably a bad board; you should send it back, especially since it's new) but if you press Command-` (that's above the 7 on the numeric keypad) to get to the ROM monitor, then type b and hit return, it should boot up OK. Keith Mason ---- Disclaimer: This article was posted by me, not IBM. It is just a person to person helpful hint. It is not an official IBM statement.