[Info-vax] HSZ console drops to NINDY...

[dittman at dittman.net]

VAXman- wrote:
> In article <4793p8-uq9.ln1 at news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> >On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:04:17 +0000, VAXman- wrote:
> >
> >> OK.  Did a little more Googling and I found a "dangerous" answer on a
> >> Chinese forum.  Got the serial number set (BTW, the other controller
> >> cannot be present to do this) and the HSZ seems to be back in working
> >> order.
> >
> >I've never seen the debugger problem, but FWIW I have seen both HSJs and 
> >HSZs jammed in such a way that you had to disconnect the other controller 
> >to get things going again.

> This was all due to replacing the CR2032 on the HSZ.  Loss of it seems to
> have completely scrozzled its brains.  Anyway, once I was out of NINDY, I
> was able to reset the serial number and hardware rev. with the "dangerous"
> command and all's well.  Quite an experience that has been well documented
> in my "lab" notebook (which is 7 VMS V5 ring binder size tomes thick now).

That happened to me on an HSG controller.
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman at dittman.net