Hi

> I've recently acquired a pile of VS3100m38 machines. Do these things
> usually die? Some of my machines (two, to this date) have just
> mysteriously stopped working. One of them simply refuses to start,

I had the same problem and mine did have a disk in it.  It was so 
flakey, I just left it on all the time.  I found that if you were "lucky"
it would start.  That means, turn the power on--nothing.  Fast off-on
sometimes.  Wait for a little bit and cycle power and it might.  It was
so random that when I moved, I yanked the drive and chucked the rest
(sorry if some consider this sacrilege!)  

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erno Palonheimo [mailto:esp@cc.hut.fi]
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 4:00 PM
> To: port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: VS3100m38 oddities.
> 
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I've recently acquired a pile of VS3100m38 machines. Do these things
> usually die? Some of my machines (two, to this date) have just
> mysteriously stopped working. One of them simply refuses to start,
> i.e. the fans don't spin up, the leds don't light up, etc. The other
> one powers up fine, but fails during self-tests... It goes through the
> usual self-test cycle until step B, where it hangs for a long time,
> and after that it quickly prints rest of the self-test letters and
> reports error code 0101.0101 with every self-test. What could be
> causing this? 
> 
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