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Is there a BIOS hard drive size limit on the Apollo 9000/700 series workstations?

Okay, I managed to get the order cancelled before it shipped. Unfortunately, it looks like my next options that are actually SCSI drives are significantly more expensive.

Seller re-posted the auction with the same title mis-identifying the drive as SCSI, though.
 
I might recommend you check amazon as well last time I checked the had 50pin scsi drives for cheaper than ebay.
 
HoJoPo said:
A SCSI2SD adapter would probably be better than an old spinning disk... if there are any available.
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If I had the money available for one of those I probably would have got one already.

I wound up going for this one. Got it via 'best offer': http://www.ebay.com/itm/162166394519

I know 'untested' is a pretty big risk, but I've had good luck with 'untested' stuff so far.
 
Got the new drive in. It works, but interestingly enough HP-UX 9.x cannot read what the drive size is and refuses to install. OpenBSD correctly identifies it as 4GB and installs without issue, and correctly boots after installing.
 
Found a copy of 10.20 to try out. It can see the drive and partition it, so I'm going to try installing. Hopefully, I'll find 10.20 more usable than 9.01 (I know that at least there's more software available for 10.20). I may try out OpenBSD again later once I decide I have some time I can dedicate to setting it up the way I want it.
 
So, 10.20 installed, but I can only log in to a failsafe CDE session. Hmm. I don't know if I just misconfigured something or what.

Yeah, I'll try the older set now that it's partitioned and see what happens, but I kind of doubt it will work since it didn't work after OpenBSD partitioned the space.
 
There is an install manual on the web if don't already have it, search for:
Installing and Updating HP-UX 10.x.pdf

Do you have it connected to a network? Generally when I have trouble logging in to a unix machine it's because there is no connection to a LAN.
In addition, I recall there was a trick to getting DHCP to work and I think that was by not connecting before the install (with a static IP,) wait until later.
 
paul said:
There is an install manual on the web if don't already have it, search for:
Installing and Updating HP-UX 10.x.pdf

Do you have it connected to a network? Generally when I have trouble logging in to a unix machine it's because there is no connection to a LAN.
In addition, I recall there was a trick to getting DHCP to work and I think that was by not connecting before the install (with a static IP,) wait until later.
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It doesn't seem to have trouble logging in, it just won't start the desktop environment after doing so. But I figured there possibly could be some network-related issue that was causing the desktop not to be able to load. I've been trying to re-install, but it seems like it's having trouble reading my CD-R now, so I may have to burn another one.
 
Nevermind, apparently it wasn't the CD drive causing the I/O errors. I had enabled Auto Spin and disabled ATTN via jumpers on the hard drive because I thought that would improve performance, but apparently the way the OS writes to the drive works better when I leave those alone.
 
I'm making progress! I set it up with VUE instead of CDE this time.

The networking thing does seem to be the issue, and I can confirm that now. VUE will start just fine when the system is in standalone mode, but as soon as I set up networking (even though networking is working and I can ping other devices on my network and even get out to the Internet) it complains that it can't start the VUE messaging service. I'm not sure how to correct that issue. It suggests checking to make sure my host name is correct in a number of files, and as far as I can tell it is, so I feel like the problem must lie somewhere else.
 
You haven't mentioned which HPUX version you have finally installed but have a look for that daemon and disable it, perhaps "ntalk" in /etc/inetd

I've only installed 10.20 and have never had trouble other than getting it to work with DNS. I normally select the options Journaled File System and CDE.
 
paul said:
You haven't mentioned which HPUX version you have finally installed but have a look for that daemon and disable it, perhaps "ntalk" in /etc/inetd

I've only installed 10.20 and have never had trouble other than getting it to work with DNS. I normally select the options Journaled File System and CDE.
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It's 10.20.
 
jmetal88 said:
... I can ping other devices on my network and even get out to the Internet) ... It suggests checking to make sure my host name is correct in a number of files, and as far as I can tell it is, so I feel like the problem must lie somewhere else.
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Can you ping your own hostname?
 
This is not my suggestion, it is from Google groups entry...
Check to see that the hostname is correct in these locations:
/etc/rc.config.d/netconf
/etc/hosts
/var/adm/inetd.sec

Also, I remember with 9.1 or 10.2 having an issue with this - I will try to find additional old notes. It was a network resolution issue as several others have stated.
It may also be how your hostname is referenced - it needs to be 8 characters or less e.g. starship.home.net ( starshine.home.net will not)

# nslookup your_hostname
# nslookup your_ip-address

should give you the same result.
Files to check
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost loopback
xxx.x.x.x your_hostname
/etc/rc.config.d/netconf
HOSTNAME=your_hostname

If you don't have an nsswitch file, here is how I created mine - not sure if this is 10.2 or 11.0 though... (hope it helps)

# vi /etc/nsswitch.conf
"/etc/nsswitch.conf" [New file]
hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue] dns [NOTFOUND=return UNAVAIL=continue TRYAGAIN=return]
services: files [NOTFOUND=return UNAVAIL=continue]
 
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