[Info-vax] HSZ console drops to NINDY...
VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG
VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG
Tue Nov 15 17:41:29 EST 2011
In article <ANadnWQJ0aNjSl_TnZ2dnUVZ_qWdnZ2d at giganews.com>, dittman at dittman.net writes:
>VAXman- wrote:
>> In article <b5ednXoWlLkeFlzTnZ2dnUVZ_sKdnZ2d at giganews.com>, dittman at dittman.net writes:
>> >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.
>
>> NINDY monitor too? Or, just the scrozzled brains in need of "dangerous?"
>
>It's been a few years so I can't remember if I had the NINDY or
>not, but I definitely had to use "dangerous" to recover. I
>can't remember where I found the command at the time. Maybe
>from dumping the memory card.
Well, FWIW, the HSZ will still not maintain the time after I set it. I'll
SET THIS/OTHER TIME=dd-mmm-yyyy:hh:mm:ss and then, if I issue a SHUTDOWN
THIS/OTHER and restart it, it comes up with TIME NOT SET. :( I thought
that the CR2032 was backing that up but apparently not.
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