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AIX serial terminal

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T3000

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Apr 15, 2005
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CA
normally the serial port to use to connect to the terminal is the 9pin one at the back of the server right? I use a null modem and i try 3270 emulation vt100, vt102 with no results. here is the model number at the front of the machine 26-05848.

the size of the case is about 50cm deep by 40 cm high by 40 cm . there is place for 16 slots. the pre-owner told me it's a power3 cpu. there's 128simms of ram in it. so i may have abour 512meg of ram in it if they are all 4 megs each. one chip on the board mention the 1994 date on it. also, there is a led display mentionning the number 263 on it when it is booted up after a good 15 - 20 mins.

my goal is to document myself in order to fully establish a terminal session with this machine. i want to try to figure out if the scsi hard drive is still alive as well.

it has a cdrom and a floppy drive connected to it. i made myself a test floppy disk but i can't make the machine try to boot up the floppy since i can't get access to the terminal prompt.

any clues what this computer is? on how i can connect to it?? i could provide urls of pictures of the server if u guys wants to.

Marc
 
bro,you can connect using the srial from behind, you will be seeing somthing like S0 or S1. also, try to post the machine type, i believe the one you posted was serial number. They shold be posted side by side in the server. the number you see once booting up could be just BIST from AIX, built in system test number. and it will change from time to time.
Other than that, i cant anything, let us know your machine type.
thanks!
 
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