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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  Need help with DN300 station
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Date: 28 Aug 89 14:46:50 GMT
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A few things ...

1) just get a regualr rignet cable and loop it back to
the node for the network problem. Terminators won't do.
It's a ringnet, not an ethernet. It wants to see a token
being passed on the net.

2) The floppy controller is built into the hard disk
controller. You should have a pair (2) of flat ribbon
cables which connect both the hard disk and the floppy
(which is mounted in the top of the hard disk cabinet)
to the CPU.

3) Your hard disk was initialized on a machine other than
the one you now have it connected to. The apollo file system
has the CPU ID number attached to each file to help with
the distributed file system (it insures that each file has a
uniquie ID number even if two or more machines on the
network have files of that same name/creation date/type/etc).
Use the command "ex chuvol" to change the CPU ID numbers
on the disk before you try to boot it.


 -- David Krowitz

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