Re: When it rains...

Okay, so after the inadvertent reboot the system came up cleanly and I have TCP/IP access (but of course no console).  So here's the $64,000 question: can I do the disk swap now and reboot, and run STRSST over the LAN?  Should I? Because frankly it's looking like it will be difficult to get a new console anytime soon.  I may be able to borrow one, but even that is difficult these days.

O Gurus of the List, what say you?

On 11/5/2020 6:14 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

So I get a message in QSYSOPR that a disk failed.  Okay, no problem, I have a spare.  I should probably get a few more, but that's a different story.  So I go to flip on the operations console (an old school twinax Infowindow) and... it beeps and then goes silent.  Okay, so now that's gone.  Time to go to the backup. an old LynkLyte (with the name SILVON0 taped to it).  It also fails to turn on.  I do a snaity check of the power cord on an LCD monitor, it works fine.  Now I'm getting worried.  I know I have the third string monitor in a closet somewhere.... and now I know why it's in the closet.  It powers up, but the screen just shows a weird rolling line; clearly the display card is fried.

So now I'm dead in the water.  No monitor, can't get in and do an SST to replace the drive.  And to add insult to injury, I bumped the power cord and killed the power momentarily, so in the middle of all this the system is booting off an unprotected set of disks.

Anyway, I'm just putting this out to the group to see if anyone has old twinax monitors that need a home.  I found a couple on Ebay, but they're not going to get here very quick.  Sadly, I was unable to find one on Amazon Prime.  :)