Subject: Re: An MV3100/KA41 question
To: Michael Sokolov <sokolov@alpha.CES.CWRU.Edu>
From: Thordur Ivarsson <totii@est.is>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/18/1998 15:05:49
Michael Sokolov wrote:
>
> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> Thanks for the info on BA23! I have got another question that someone
> here may have an answer to. I have previously written that whenever
> MicroVAX and VAXstation twins used nearly the same system boards, they were
> still different in that the MicroVAX version had the video circuitry
> omitted. Well, among the stuff that Richard Parobek has given me on
> Thursday there are two MV2000s. To test my theory, I have opened them up
> and looked at the system boards. I was expecting to see signs of omitted
> components (empty pads). I was very surprised to see all components in
> place. There were no empty pads! I didn't have a board from a VS2000 in
> front of me for comparison, but I have seen them before, and they looked
> the same! Since my original theory turns out to be wrong, ....
....
> Everything works out nicely. On VS3100, on the other hand, something
> strange is going on. Ports 2 and 3 come out of the system unit already as
> MMJs, and ports 0 and 1 come out in two ways. First, they are accessible
> through the monitor DB15, but there also are funny keyboard and mouse
> connectors right on the system unit. On MV3100 all ports should be MMJs,
> but I don't see how could they do it. My question to the club is this:
> could someone with an MV3100 M10/10e/20/20e (but not M30+) please look at
> its back panel and tell me what connectors does it (left to right or right
> to left, doesn't matter)? I remember someone saying that he has such a box.
>
I have here system that is about 15cm thick marked in the front as
MicroVAX 3100.
The layout of back panel is like this
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unused opening
36pin-Dconn 50pin-Dconn-3row 50pin-Dconn
SCSI pwr-switch
8 serial cons synchronus serial second scsi contr.
15pin-DIX switch BNC halt MMJ MMJ MMJ 25pin-Dconn maint
8-leds
Ethernet Ethernet switch 1 2 3
switch pwr-sock
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The console is connected to MMJ-1 and prompts with following:
KA41-D V1.0 ca`
F_..E...D...C...B...A...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2_..1...
? E 0040 0000.0005
? C 0080 0000.4001
VMS/VMB ULTRIX ADDR DEVTYP NUMBYTES RM/FX WP DEVNAM REV
------- ------ -------- ------ -------- ----- -- ------ ---
ESA0 SE0 08-00-2B-25-2E-1A
DKA300 RZ3 A/3/0/00 DISK 209 MB FX RZ24 211B
MKA500 TZ5 A/5/0/00 TAPE ........ RM
...HostID.... A/7 INITR
...HostID.... B/7 INITR
[ESA0:] ?>>>
This system is belived to be MV3100m20 or MV3100m20e
I have here somewere owners manual for this system but it is very bad
document.
Well i found new sticker under the system at this very moment here is:
Made in U.K.
Series BA42B CPU KA41
I didn't notice this before!
Hope this helps!
--
Þórður Ívarsson Thordur Ivarsson
Rafeindavirki Electronic technician
Norðurgötu 30 Nordurgotu 30
Box 309 Box 309
602 Akureyri 602 Akureyri
Ísland Iceland
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