[Info-vax] rx2600 hardware question

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 3/10/2019 6:54 AM, Hans Vlems wrote:
> My rx2600 is missing (at least) one pin on the large connector that interfaces to a PCI cardcage. Several years back I bought a used main board, which did not work: invalid/mismatching system id(s)
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> Luckily Hein van den Heuvel wanted to get rid of an rx2600 so I bought a mainboard plus the frontpanel board (the blinken led’s board).
> I just swapped that little board and got the same error 55: invalid/mismatching system id(s)
> 
> There is an exchange of information about id’s  between these main and frontpanel boards. 

Yes, from everything I've been able to discover, there is.

Was the software to manipulate the ids ever released to the general public?

No, not so far as I know.  When I was an HP employee (Oracle DBA - 2006-2009) I meant to download the stuff but I never could find it and then it was too late.  If you have a real good friend in HP you might be able to get a copy.  I'm still looking.  I have a dead Rx2660 that I'd switch mainboards on but I'm afraid I'd get the same error and have no way to fix it..

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> Hans
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