Subject: Re: VAX knobs and buttons...
To: Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org>
From: Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/28/2001 23:09:58
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Gunther Schadow wrote:
> > Yup, got an honest-to-goodness VT-220 plugged in. I can POST, but I'm
> > having trouble booting VMS (all that's on the drives, AFAIK), Keep
> > getting `Not an I/O adapter' or some such. She's not seeing all the BI
> > cards, either. The 8 port async card is missing, for one, and a few
> > others. I dunno which ones, tho. Perhaps I twisted a cable when I was
> > reassembling her.
>
> I guess I still don't understand what "POST" means. Haven't
> encountered that term in the manual.
POST == Power-On Self-Test, IIRC from IBM terminology. Though it may be
used in other circles.
-brian.