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From: maklinm@cognos.com (Max Maklin)
Subject: Cache parity errors in the error logger for Ultrix
Summary: What are these cache parity errors in my error log
Keywords: uerf, cache, parity, log
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa CANADA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 23:44:49 GMT

I would like to start off first by saying thanks to Digital for
looking into this for me (especially the local office).  Seems
my original post on the what these cache parity errors was
somewhat construed as a flame and I while I was frustrated in
not able to get an answer, I should be more careful when wording
posts, especially as they are many people in Digital who read
this group and do not like to see unhappy campers.

The original question came about when all of the sudden I started
receiving cache parity errors on my DECSystem 5500 running Ultrix 4.2A.
The problem was compounded in that at the time I did the upgrade I was
also receiving an FCO, which I mistakingly thought to be the cause.
I saw many other posts about this but no followups to the newsgroup.
I myself went through Customer Support and they too could not give
me a solid answer.  The call was escalated, but still to no avail.

Some people had been told it was a debug flag that had been left on
and made it to distribution.  While this was close, it gave the impression
that someone had forgotten to turn it off which is not the case.

The answer was that in Ultrix 4.2A a flag that was being set on cache
parity errors was now being reported to the error logger along with other
informational messages.  It is thus a feature rather than an oversight
and should be treated thus.  The idea is that if the count starts to
increase very rapidly, this could be warning of a CPU problem.

There was no mention in the manuals, and it appears many people within
Digital are also unaware of it.  I believe my source had to actually
end up talking to the particular engineering group to get the correct
answer.

Again I apologize to Digital, and wish again to thank them for helping
me answer my question.

Cheers,

Max
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Technical Analyst	                           3755 Riverside Drive
Cognos Incorporated                              Ottawa, Ontario CANADA
Internet: maklinm@cognos.COM                 UUNet: maklinm@cognos.UUCP
From: juhan@TUC.CHEM.UT.EE (Juhan Poldvere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: RA81 Master/Slave Error ?
Date: 30 Sep 92 14:16:41 GMT

Our RA81 disk drive spins up, then brakes and the FAULT lamp on the 
front panel turns on . Depressing the FAULT lamp/button gives
WRITE PROT lamp blinking, which translates to "Master/slave error"
according to the User Guide.

What does this mean? Who is the Master and who is the slave?

Please reply via E-mail to:   juhan@chem.ut.ee.

Thanks in advance,
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Juhan Poeldvere, ES5QX                | juhan@chem.ut.ee
Tartu University, Dept. of Chemistry  | fax:   7+01424+35440
2 Jakobi St., EE-2400, Tartu, Estonia | voice: 7+01424+35429
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From: butcherc@frith.egr.msu.edu (Cathy Butcher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Lockdown Scheme Wanted
Date: 2 Oct 92 16:15:30 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, Michigan State University


I am looking for a lockdown scheme for workstations. Does anyone have 
any information on lockdowns for sun, hp, ibm, and/or dec? Please e-mail
or phone me since I don't currently have usenet access. 

			   Thanks in advance,
					     Greg



Gregory Fell                     Technical Consultant   
Ford Motor Corporation           CAD/CAM Dept.
fell@cadcam.pms.ford.com         PH.(313)337-8172 
"No one expects the Spanish Inquisition...."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Distribution: jadpc2
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 16:52:16 -0800
From: Dan_Cook@f344.n202.z1.fidonet.org
Subject: New version of ZIP for VMS...
Comment-To: All@f344.n202.z1.fidonet.org
Reply-To: Dan_Cook@f344.n202.z1.fidonet.org
X-FSC-PATH: 202/344

Does anyone know where I can FTP or Freq the new version of ZIP for
VMS?
I think this is the 1.9 or 5.0 or INFO-ZIP version.  Please reply via
e-mail (dan@topaz.rossinc.com) or netmail, if possible.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: siegel-micah@CS.YALE.EDU (Micah Siegel)
Subject: Did you hear the one about the X-terminal and the DECstation 5000/200?
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 22:00:59 GMT

Hi Folks:

Our laboratory is contemplating the purchase of a Digital VXT-2000
color X-terminal display.  We currently own a DECstation 5000/200
running Ultrix V4.2A; this machine would be the computational engine
for any display we would purchase.  We would GREATLY appreciate any
information or comments/experience with this or other X-terminal
displays connected to a DECstation.

Specifically, what is the feeling about X-terminal displays instead of
a low-end DECstation 5000/20?  What about using third party X-terminal
displays with the DECstation?  Has anyone done this successfully (or
unsuccessfully)?  What sort of increased computational load should we
expect on our DECstation 500/200?  Is there compelling reason to
purchase more than the minimum 10MBytes of memory in the Xterminal?
Any and all anecdotes or opinions are welcome!

Please reply email as soon as possible.  We will likely be making a
purchase decision by the beginning of next week.

Thanks much for your help.

Micah Siegel

=======================================================================
Micah Siegel      "When you gaze long into an abyss  siegel@cs.yale.edu
Yale University    the abyss also gazes into you."          --Nietzsche
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: nzimman@icaen.uiowa.edu (Nicholas R. Zimmerman)
Subject: Please tell me how to load an RA60 Drive....
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 22:08:17 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

Greetings....
 
I have a PDP11/44 that I am about to boot....I have one RA60 drive and a
TU80 tape drive....what I need to know is how to load that RA60 so I can
boot up and load the system on the drive.
 
I know the sticky ins and outs of loading the sys, but it is the actual
physical loading of the disk pack that I don't know....please enlighten me
and be very detailed....pretend I am a moron....

Thanks.


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| Nick Zimmerman           |  "I am the king of all I see. |
|                          |   My kingdom for a voice."    |
| nzimman@icaen.uiowa.edu  |               -R.E.M.         | 
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From: circuit@convex.csd.uwm.edu (circuit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: vaxstationII
Date: 27 Sep 1992 00:32:32 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.30
Originator: circuit@convex.csd.uwm.edu



	Hi, I just bought a vaxstation II computer (real cheap!) it
seems to work but it has one problem.. It has no console wit it. I
would like to know if anyone has ANY information on it! What exactly
is it.. How does it compare to a 3100 or Vax Station 2000. 


Any help would be appreciated. 



Thanks
Chris
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circuit@convex.csd.uwm.edu
From: mattox@suna0.cs.uiuc.edu (David Mattox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Console commands for a MicroVAX II
Date: 30 Sep 92 14:56:14 GMT
Reply-To: mattox@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Originator: mattox@suna0.cs.uiuc.edu


Hi, 

I have inherited the system managers job here but not all the manuals. Could someone direct me to a list of console commands and descriptions thereof for a MicroVAX II? Gatekeeper has a ps file of that sort for DS 5000/200s but no vaxes that I can find. Even if you can't supply me with a complete list, the one item of information that I really need at the moment is to know how to boot the machine with an alternate kernel file. I need to change the kernel but dont want to get stuck with one that doesn't wor







k and no way to use the old one. 


thanks in advance for any help, 

dave mattox
mattox@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu
From: mzagsaa@v4.cgu.mcc.ac.uk (Tony Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Q: VS4000VLC
Date: 29 Sep 92 10:21:53 GMT
Reply-To: A.C.Arnold@mcc.ac.uk
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre


In article <1992Sep25.195557.1970@e2big.mko.dec.com>,
marra@tmfeng.enet.dec.com (Dave Marra) writes:
|>From: marra@tmfeng.enet.dec.com (Dave Marra)
|>Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
|>Subject: Re: Q: VS4000VLC
|>Date: 25 Sep 92 19:55:57 GMT
|>Reply-To: marra@tmfeng.enet.dec.com (Dave Marra)
|>
|>
|>>I thought that as of 5.2, or something, VMS did 'true' highwater
|>marking with
|>>very little overhead. An upgrade of VMS somewhere along the line
|>turned back
|>>on the highwater marking that I had specifically turned off. What
|>kind of
|>>overhead does the new highwater marking entail?

True high water marking is done for sequential files. That is, an
application cannot access any old data beyond the last block of the file
actually written. It gets a block of azeroes if this is attempted. Thus
high water marking is not much of an overhead for sequential files. The old
technique of zeroing out newly allocated blocks of a file is used for other
file organisations.

|>
|>I believe, and I could be wrong, that with highwater marking, when
|>the
|>operating 
|>system is asked for a page of disk memory, it clears the memory prior
|>to giving
|>it to the asker, with the highwater off, it isn't cleared. 
|>Therefore,
|>if you
|>are going to be paging only to a disk, and aren't too worried about
|>security,
|>turning this off should result in less overhead (the clearing of the
|>memory).

Sorry, but I think you are wrong here. High water marking has no effect
on paging If a program page faults for a new page (i.e., one that has not
been used before) then a page of zeroes is always presented to the program.
These are known as demand zero pages.

This is getting to be more of a VMSNET.INTERNALS discussion, so I'll
stop right here.

Tony Arnold,
Manchester Computing Centre,
University of Manchester.
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From: hansg@risken.vd.volvo.se (Hans Granqvist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms
Subject: ''tsch'' for VMS?
Date: 30 Sep 92 07:09:36 GMT

Does anybody know of a CLI-shell for VMS that will act like ''tsch'' on
UNIX, i.e., file name completion, command completion, selective recall 
buffering (type an 'r' and 'arrow-up' and only your latest commands
beginning with an 'r' will be displayed for you to select from) -- all
completions take place at the touch of 'tab'??

Is it at all possible to do these shells in VMS?

--
Hans Granqvist, Volvo, Gothenburg, Sweden. Thank you for reading!
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From: rocker@csa.bu.edu (The Long Haired One)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.dec.micro,misc.forsale.computers,vmsnet.pdp-11,bu.forsale,mit.bboard,ne.forsale
Subject: Update: DEC Manuals forsale
Date: 6 Oct 92 19:50:31 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.dec
Distribution: comp,misc,vmsnet,bu,mit,ne
Organization: Boston University


Buyer pays shipping on the following items.

LA34  Users Guide ($5)
LA120 Users Guide ($5)
LS120 DECwriter III (not LA120) ($5 set of 2)
     -operator guide 
     -"1200 baud printer terminal user's manual"(ek-ls120-ug-002)

VT220 ($15 set of 3) 
      -programmer pocket guide 
      -owner man
      -installing guide
VT241-A Color video monitor Installation/Owner's Guide ($3)

vt330/vt340 Programmer Pocket Guide ($5) 
vt330/vt340 installing and using ($5) 
vt330/vt340 Programmer Ref Man Vol 1: text programming ($10)
vt330/vt340 Programmer Ref Man Vol 2: graphics programming ($10) 

microcomputers and memories 1982 ($5)
Vax 11/780 software handbook vol. 3 1977-78 ($5)

LN03  Programmer Ref Man ($8) 
LA50  Installing and Using the LA50 Printer ($5)
LA75  Programmer Ref Man ($8)

email rocker@cs.bu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: douglis@MITL.COM (Fred Douglis)
Subject: problem with Xwst and text display
Organization: Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 21:01:33 GMT

I've been experiencing some strange problems with Xwst.  Certain applications,
gnuplot and a new presentation package I've been beta-testing, fail to
display text properly when I run Xwst on my two-headed display.  They
run fine on a regular display with Xtm2d.  

I thought the problem was a font problem initially, but now I think it
has something to do with the server.  For one thing, the problems vary
depending on how the window is displayed.  Another user ran the same
program and found that part of the text was displayed, only in the wrong
location.  And gnuplot would display the text for a brief instant, and then
clear it; if the window was resized, the text might appear again, though
not necessarily in the right location.

I'd blame the applications except that they run okay on a vanilla server...
Does anyone have any suggestions/insight for me?  Many thanks for any help.


-- 
Fred Douglis
Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory  | Email: douglis@mitl.com
182 Nassau Street			      | Phone: +1 609 497-4600
Princeton, NJ 08542 USA 		      | Fax:   +1 609 497-4013
From: dsmith@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: VS2000 needs a new monitor
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:54:19 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

I have a VAXStation 2000 with 14 MB of memory which I use as an X-terminal
booting across the network from a DECstation 3100s.  Recently, the monitor,
a two plane B&W, died - we think the 120V transformer blew.  I don't know
if we can fix it or how much it will cost, so...

Can anyone tell me what the going rate is for just a monitor to replace the
above-mentioned dead one, and where I can get one?  Or, can anyone suggest
an alternative monitor?  I don't believe that my VS2000 has the proper
board to drive an 8 plane color monitor - but how do I confirm this?

Doug Smith
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
The University of Toledo
Toledo, OH  43606-3390

voice    419-537-2116
fax      419-537-4033
email    dsmith@uoft02.utoledo.edu
From: murphy@ufp.dco.dec.com (Rick Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Scholar Plus
Date: 4 Oct 92 23:12:06 GMT
Reply-To: murphy@ufp.dco.dec.com
Distribution: comp
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Landover MD


In article <ROCKER.92Oct3014601@csa.bu.edu>, rocker@csa.bu.edu (The Long Haired One) writes:
|>I just got a Scholar Plus modem without instructions. Can someone tell me
|>what the differnce between it and the normal Scholar?

It uses a very different command set, and provides Hayes emulation.
If control-B doesn't wake it, try AT<return>.
If it's in DMCL mode (^B gets 'Ready'), ENABLE AT will switch to hayes mode.
(default password is 'SCHOLAR').
	-Rick
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Domain:  murphy@dco.dec.com -or- murphy@burfle.enet.dec.com
Bang:    decwrl!burfle.enet!murphy	"Somewhere between 30 and Death" -
Ding:	 (301) 918-5883				bumper sticker.
Disclaimer: This nonsense came from an AI program written in TECO. Ignore it.
From: mark@alsvid.une.edu.au (Mark Garrett Internet: mark@arvak.une.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3859)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: OpenVMS, OSF/1, Windows NT...oh my!
Date: 2 Oct 92 05:05:45 GMT
Organization: University of New England - Northern Rivers (Lismore)

From article <1992Sep17.155221.1303@innovative.com>, by jw@innovative.com:
> In article <1992Sep17.065052.12294@engage.pko.dec.com>, sharpe@adodem.enet.dec.com writes:
>> In article <BuBGBF.M8K@acsu.buffalo.edu>, kalisiak@acsu.buffalo.edu (Christophe M. Kalisiak) writes...
> 
>>>Ah, but how many Intel-based machines can run three or more operating
>>>systems at once? I have heard that one can run OSF/1, OpenVMS, and 
>>>Windows NT _concurrently_ on an Alpha box.
> 
>> Now that would be a neat trick. Must be the VMS and OSF/1 servers/APIs running
>> on NT :-)
> 
> Well, page (II) 6-6 of the Alpha Architecture Reference Manual, which is a
> publicly available document outside of nondisclosure, describes the Processor
> Status register.  There is a bit there called the VMM, for the virtual machine
> monitor.  "When set, the processor is executing in a virtual machine monitor." 
> It sounds to me like Alpha has hardware support for a virtual machine a-la
> IBM's VM that would be capable of running multiple operating systems
> simultaneously, as is the function of a virtual machine.
> 
> Or, perhaps I'm reading too much into Dick Sites' PROGRAMMING NOTE: "This bit
> is only meaningful when running PALcode that implements virtual machine
> capabilties."

	I think your wrong. VMM is to allow PALcode to make
the 21064 appear like it's a VAX chip or for that matter like any other
CPU that you wish to imitate , rather than run native 21064.

	The way that OSF/1 (gold) and Windows NT would run together
is that they both use a common micro kernel (Mach 3.0). With Mach the
operating system env appears to the micro kernel as a server process. Mach
is a large cross bar switch for message handling. The OS is out there with
the application programs and gets a share of the CPU just the same.

	I thought VMS was going to be build on Mach 3.0 so that it to could
move away from being VAX only. I had been recently lead to believe that the
ALPHA version of VMS was still not Mach3.0 based.

	Can anybody shed light on VMS <-> Mach3.0 story?


	Cheers
		Mark :)
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   University of New England, Northern Rivers, Lismore NSW Australia.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: a82@ws100.lrw.uni-bremen.de (Henner Gratz)
Subject: disktab entry for DEC DSP3105 OEM drive
Organization: LRW (Universitaet Bremen)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:24:05 GMT

Hello everybody!

I want to spend my Personal DECstation 5/25 a new drive and think the DEC DSP3105
would be the best choice (for me). But before I spend my last money I have three
questions:

  1. Can ULTRIX 4.2a (or 4.2c) use the disk as the system disk?

  2. I need a disktab-entry for the disk (best with 70-80 Meg. swap partition).
     Does it exist somewhere?

  3. What's the DEC-name (rz???) of the DEC DSP3105?

Thank you very much in advance for any answers!

With best regards

	Henner

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H. Gratz, LRW (Universitaet Bremen)

email: a82@lrw.uni-bremen.de  or c13j@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de





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From: kalisiak@acsu.buffalo.edu (Christophe M. Kalisiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,misc.forsale.computers
Subject: MicroVAX III memory boards for sale or trade for MicroVAX II memory
Date: 30 Sep 92 21:36:27 GMT
Organization: UB

I have a few extra MS650-AA 8meg memory boards (for use in MicroVAX III or
III+ systems), and I found that I need some MS630-CA 8meg MVII memory
boards.
If you would like to trade or if you know of someone who would be interested
in trading, please let me know. I have a need for these memory boards sometime
in the next couple weeks.

Thanks,
Chris
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kalisiak@acsu.buffalo.edu    |   entertainment value." -- Gogo Dodo, Tiny Toons
V076N3W7@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu| "Stimpy, your wealth of ignorance astounds me."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: johnn@eskimo.celestial.com (John Navitsky)
Subject: DECserver 200/MC question / problem
Keywords: flow control, dsr, dtr, cts, rts, terminal server
Organization: =>ESKIMO NORTH (206) 367-3837 SEATTLE, WA.<=
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:36:47 GMT

Hello,

I've got a problem with setting up modems on a DECserver 200/MC and was
wondering if anyone had any wisdom that they would like to share.

Basically, I want to set up the terminal servers with modem control enabled 
and use hardware flow control (CTS/RTS).  I can enable these modes and no-
one complains, but the DECserver's help file specifically states:

  When using CTS or DSR flow control, MODEM CONTROL must be DISABLED.

Ok, 1) why, 2) why does it let me specify otherwise, 3) will it really work
with both set, 4) what are the potential problems with it set up that way.

My main goal is to set up hardware flow control for my modems - also I want
the terminal server to be able to disconnect the modem.  (by dropping DSR
seems easiest).  Currently we are using Microcom QX/4232hs modems but also
we may use Telebit Trailblazer+s at times.

Thank you for your help!

  -john

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: rick@qucdnee.ee.queensu.ca
Subject: Re: Microvax 2000: used price?
Organization: Queen's University EE Department
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 03:56:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.215953.26882@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, vhalkka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Vesa Halkka) writes:
> 
>>Also, how can i put such a cpu into an existing ethernet TCP/IP network 
>>without spending (much) money? A serial slip connection would be ok, but 
>>is such pd software available for VMS? (I probably need a TCP/IP package
>>for the socket library/telnet/ftp etc.)
> 
> CMU packet is free.. and it even works.
    this is a tad patronizing, and also incorrect. CMU-TEK TCP/IP is not 
free, but is damned cheap. it works fine; it's the main tcp/ip package 
in use on my two clusters (telnet, ftp, mail, lpr/lpd, and the like). 
it's not a cadillac like multinet, but in terms of value for your (our) 
dollar it's unbeatable. 

> 
>>This cpu will only be used for playing around with VMS via terminals or
>>probably a telnet connection (if possible).
> 
> That about all you can do with a MVAX 2000....
    shrug. we still have people doing useful research on vs2000's.

rp

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From: rocker@csa.bu.edu (The Long Haired One)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,misc.forsale.computers,vmsnet.pdp-11,bu.forsale,mit.bboard
Subject: DEC PDP stuff forsale
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:33:17 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.dec
Distribution: comp,misc,vmsnet,bu,mit
Organization: Boston University


All items buyer pays shipping. 

($40) DEC BA-11 NE (Extension Backplane)
      originally from a PDP-11/03-L which was upgraded to a PDP-11/23
      Last known condition was working, I have no way to verify it at
      present, so its being sold as UNKNOWN condition.

($20) DEC LA120-BA (DECwriter III)
          Condition: Non-working, should be good for parts

($40) DigiData 9 track reel-to-reel model# 1749-86-4-110-UL
      originally controlled by an Emulex TC01, with densities of 800/1600.
      Used on a PDP-11/23 system.
      Last known condition was working, I have no way to verify it at
      present, so its being sold as UNKNOWN condition, no manuals.

($25) CDC 9448 Cartridge Module Drive
          This is an 84meg hard drive with one removable pack.
          Used on a PDP-11/23, configured as 5 fixed RK06 and one removable.
	  This was controlled by a SC01 which makes it a SMD drive,
	  (not MFM, RLL, etc etc). its 3'x1.5'x1' and rather heavy.
	  Includes - 3 removable packs 
                   - mounting hardware
		   - 8' power cable
		   - 8' 50pin and 25pin connector cables
	  Its condition is unknown since I no longer have anything to
	  connect it to, but it powers up and spins the disks.

email to rocker@cs.bu.edu

-Rocker