Re: What to expect with a 9406-170?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is telling me that you have the base NON-raid card in the machine.
That card is apparently reporting in OK.
The system has identified a disk unit that has failed.
It's very probable that said disk unit is the Load Source disk because 
it stopped dead.

You definitely need the console hooked up no matter what the issue is 
but in this case I doubt you'll see anything there although it is 
possible that if the load source disk is good but another unit has 
failed that you would see an error on the screen because in this case 
the LIC would have loaded before the system halted. Without a console it 
tries to IPL and no matter how few disks have failed the 675A has no 
raid so......

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 1/16/2013 11:45 AM, Clay Carley wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> First off, I'd like to say that this group seems like a great bunch of
> smart folks; I've been watching the list for a while now and would like
> to say thanks for all the handy information that I've gotten already.
> I'm almost somewhat embarrassed to ask for assistance here with such an
> old machine, as well as being very new to these systems as well.  I
> suppose you could say I'm a hobbyist, however I am hoping to learn what
> I can and hopefully take that to a job someday.
>
> I found an old 9406-170 locally and have been collecting what I need to
> access the machine at home.  I'm waiting for some baluns to finally
> connect my 3476 terminal to the machine to see what it's complaining about.
>
> Currently, when power is applied, the code displayed on the panel seems
> to tell me that the battery has died.  I don't recall the code at the
> moment.  Powering on the system takes a few moments with many codes
> displayed, but it finally settles on 675a3200, with no processor
> activity, and the attention light on.  I believe this code relates to a
> disk failure; but I'm curious; if no O/S is found, will it display the
> same code?  Will the system battery being dead cause IPL issues?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Clay Carley