[Info-vax] rx2600 hardware question

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 3/10/2019 3:12 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> 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)
>>
>> 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..

I should add that I would love to be totally wrong about this.  But if I'm remembering previous discussions correctly, this was a big complaint against the Integrity platform in the past.

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John H. Reinhardt