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From: bill@wrangler.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Installation wierdness
Summary: disconnect ttya if DCD is on it
Keywords: no tty
Message-ID: <686@wrangler.WLK.COM>
Date: 29 Apr 91 21:25:21 GMT
References: <682@wrangler.WLK.COM> <1783@safn2.UUCP>
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Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. & Associates, Pipe Creek, TX
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In article <1783@safn2.UUCP>, rey@safn2.UUCP (rey) writes:
> In article <682@wrangler.WLK.COM>, I wrote:
> > This one is absolutely bizarre, hopefully there's something very simple
> > to get around it. [ console dies when prompting for the root device... ]
> 
> [ similar things happened to Rey McClatchey... ]
>
> Take "safe" off the tape. Persistance paid off for me as the system is up
> fine now. Tower 450/32 3.00.01. My root is sdb1. wyse50 was 9600 7E1/DTR.
> 
> This is an event I had dismissed as Gremlins. Then I see your post.

This time the cavalry rode to my rescue.  I was re-reading the release notes
when I got a piece of email from John Alsop at Sea Change.  He suggested I
might have something connected to ttya that was asserting DCD and confusing
the program.  I do indeed have a Heathkit weather computer hooked to ttya
and it does indeed assert DCD.

I wasn't aware that you could install at 1200 baud from ttya or 9600 baud
from ttyb but that's what the book says.  I didn't have time to get backed
up, verified, and re-installed and make the Nucon this evening but I'll do
it first thing in the morning.

T H A N K S   A   B U N C H   J O H N   A L S O P   ! ! !

I shudder to think of the crazy things I might have tried without ever
finding out what was wrong.  Sheesh!  I feel kind of silly, but I'm
delighted to have the answer.
-- 
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