[tech] Manta

[David Manchester]

> On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:07:41PM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
> > 1) The Ethernet card in Manta is dicky.
> > 2) The other ethernet cards on top of manta, according to Nick, are dicky.
> [...]
> 
> I'm not sure which is which anymore... Between the three of them there
> might be one which is fine. Maybe we should stick them all in for
> redundancy. ::-)

Presuming the CSRs are set appropriately :P

> It may not be the cards, it might be the physical wires from the cards
> to the AUI on the back, which have no doubt been plugged and unplugged a
> fair bit over time...

True enough. We've got one other example of that cable... not sure about
its condition. It might be the fscked one that Simon had to resolder one
conductor back onto the (crimp) connecter. Not too flash.

> Don't worry about the filenames - the DECservers know enough to ask for
> the right one - you can watch them do it with tcpdump. If manta's
> network is up, they'll boot.

Yes - if the appropriate file is there :)
I think the DECserver 200 is PRO801ENG.SYS or similar.

Cheers
/dave

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