Re: SOLVED - No signon screen -- MIDRANGE-L

Chris, Mark, Rob and Scott.

A few more clues and I think I have the answer.

C09 has the 266C in it. Based on what Chris said, it should have a 4 port brick attached. It does NOT. In fact, I don't even HAVE a 4 port brick. I think I have one on my 270 at home though....

SO !

Looks like I need to have the 4 port brick attached to the 266C and based on Rob directions, it shows that as CTL01 and that should give me a console (won't know until I get a 4 port brick attached).

Part Deux is:

CTL02, then, has the current terminal in place, yet, it didn't give me a signon. Working the hunch that the QINTERXXX subsystem was a clue, I did use WRKSBSD QINTER* and DID find a QINTER subsystem. It has the *CONS entry in it and *ALL. But, it wasn't started. I started it and it DID give me a signon screen. I has assumed, wrongly, that the QINTER001 and QINTER002 subsystems were all that were needed. For telnet, yes, but for DSP020000 I needed to have QINTER running.

So that is it then. Before I scratch this thing I need the 4 port brick and then verify that I get a console, at that point I should be able to do what I need to do.

Thanks all for the help.

Pete


Ingvaldson, Scott wrote:

What is in slot C09?

-----Original Message-----
date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:38:31 -0600
from: Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: No signon screen

No. No Ops Console. This system always had a Twinax console.

But, I am beginning to think that there WAS another twinax controller at
one time.

Here is what I am seeing:

CTL01 is a 266C device type (not sure what that is exactly)
CTL02 is a 2722 device type.

The QCTLSBSD is QCTL.  QCTL is active.  There is a QCTL controller
defined as a 266C device although it is varied off.  If you try to vary
it on it tells you that the resource is already in use (presumably by
CTL01 which uses the same resource).

When I delete the terminal device description on CTL02 (the only device
configured on it), it autoconfigs as DSP020000 which tells me that it is
on CTL02 (true) and has address 0 (true) on port 0 (true).  Even if I
didn't want this as a console, shouldn't it still give me a signon
screen?

There is only one connector at the back of the 720 that will connect to
the "brick".

I just re-checked that the cable and terminal are OK by taking the
terminal and cable off of our Model 800 and putting it on the 720.  No
luck.

I suspect that it has something to do with the fact that the Twinax
controller is CTL02 and probably something to do with the multiple
QINTER subsystems but I can't quite pull it all together.

Pete