George,

I have a 3100 that is fully functional with the exception of the internal
SCSI harness.  A few of the wires in the harness have separated from the
connector and it is next to impossible to determine where they came from, or
how I might reconnect them.  I've had no luck locating a replacement
internal SCSI harness, so the machine is basically useless to me now.

Anyhow, I am running a 5000/200 now, and really no longer need the 3100.
I'd be willing to pull the main board from the 3100 (or even the whole case
including supply) and ship it to you if wanted to cover the shipping costs.

It is fully configured with RAM (although I don't recall the size of the
chips that are in it).

Prior to the SCSI harness falling apart, the machine passed all self-tests
and was running NetBSD 1.4 (the HDD has been removed and is in use with the
5000/200 now under 1.6.2)

Let me know if you are interested and I can get your address and estimate
the shipping cost for the board.  If you are located anywhere within driving
distance of western Connecticut you are welcome to pick it up in person.

Rob Mohr

(P.S. I also have a VR-299 color monitor and cable that was used with the
built-in frame-buffer on the 3100.  The thing is very bulky and heavy and
would probably cost more than it is worth to ship, however you are welcome
to it.)

-----Original Message-----
From: port-pmax-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:port-pmax-owner@NetBSD.org] On
Behalf Of George Harvey
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 5:21 PM
To: port-pmax@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 self-test failure

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:43:24 -0400 (EDT)
Kirk Russell <kirk@ba23.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, George Harvey wrote:
> 
> > I've aquired a 3100 that I'm hoping to install NetBSD on.
> > Unfortunately it fails the self-test:
> >
> > KN01 V7.01
> >
> > 7..6..5..4..3..2..
> > ??
> >
> > >From what I can gather from the 'net, test 2 is the LANCE Ethernet
> > controller. I've tried both an AUI transceiver and BNC terminator
> > but still get the failure. Is there any hope or have I got a dead
> > board?
> 
> On the back of the box, between the AUI and BNC connectors, is a
> button that selects if you using AUI or BNC.  And a green light that
> shows if you have a link.  Try to toggle the switch to see if you
> can light up the green light, on one of you two networks.  I would
> guess no green light is the cause of the above self-test failure.

Thanks for the reply, I've tried the switch and I get the green light on
both interfaces when I select them. The AUI-10baseT transceiver also
shows link active so power is getting to the AUI port.

> I don't think a single BNC terminator will work.  Try a T-connector
> and two terminators instead.

I should have been more specific, the terminator is a T-piece and two
terminators.

I found a web site which listed a lot of the ROM test routines
(www.q.dyndns.org/~blc/DS3100/3100test.html) but I can't get any of them
to run on my 3100, the console just hangs. On my 2100 (which passes its
self-test) they work as described. Having test routines which don't work
if the self-test fails seems like a bad idea but that is the only
difference I can see between the two machines. Is there anything else
that would stop the test routines running?

Thanks,
George