DEC Personal DECstation 5000 Manuel utilisateur

PersonalDECstation5000

User’sGuide

Order Number: EK–PM30E–RB.003

Digital Equipment Corporation

Maynard, Massachusetts

Second Printing, Sept, 1992

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Contents

Preface ..................................................... xv

Part I Introducing Your Workstation

1 The Five Basic Parts

1.1 TheSystemUnit ..................................... 1–3

1.1.1 The Front of the System Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–4

1.1.2 The Back of the System Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–5

1.1.3 Inside the System Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–7

1.1.3.1 To Open the System Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–7

1.1.3.2 To Close the System Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–10

1.2 TheMonitor......................................... 1–11

1.2.1 Connecting a Monitor to the System Unit Video

Connector........................................ 1–11

1.2.2 Connecting a Monitor to a TURBOchannel Connector . . . . . . 1–15

1.3 TheKeyboard........................................ 1–15

1.3.1 Connecting the Keyboard to the Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–16

1.4 TheMouse.......................................... 1–19

1.5 Power Cord and Monitor Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–20

2 The Environment

2.1 SiteRequirements .................................... 2–1

2.1.1 Temperature and Humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–1

2.1.2 Cleanliness....................................... 2–2

2.1.3 Interference...................................... 2–2

2.1.4 Power........................................... 2–2

2.2 VoltageRequirements ................................. 2–3

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3 Starting and Testing

3.1 Turning On Your Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–1

3.2 Using the Power-Up Self-Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–2

3.3 Using the System Self-Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–2

3.4 Checking Your Workstation Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–3

3.5 Booting Factory-Installed Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–5

3.6 Booting the Software from a Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–5

3.7 Booting the Software from an External Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–5

3.8 Using the Workstation Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–5

3.9 Turning Off Your Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–6

4 Taking Your Workstation Apart

4.1 Dismantling Your Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–1

4.2 PackingYourEquipment............................... 4–2

Part II External Additions to Your Workstation

5 Ethernet

5.1 If Your Workstation Is Not Part of a Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–2

5.1.1 Connecting the Loopback Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–2

5.2 Connecting Your Workstation to a Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–3

5.2.1 Using the Sliding Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–3

5.3 Connecting to a ThickWire Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–4

5.4 Connecting to a ThinWire Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–6

5.4.1 To Connect the ThickWire-to-ThinWire Adapter . . . . . . . . . . 5–10

5.4.2 To Connect the Workstation to the ThinWire Network . . . . . . 5–10

5.5 Connecting to a Twisted-Pair Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–11

5.5.1 To Connect the ThickWire-to-Twisted-Pair Adapter . . . . . . . . 5–15

5.6 Finding Your Ethernet Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–17

6 External Storage Devices

6.1 Storage Devices You Can Add to Your Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . 6–2

6.2 Guidelines for Connecting SCSI Storage Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–3

6.3 SCSIIDs ........................................... 6–4

6.3.1 Factory-Assigned SCSI IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–4

6.3.2 VerifyingSCSIIDs................................. 6–4

6.3.3 ChangingSCSIIDs ................................ 6–6

6.4 To Connect an Expansion Box to the System Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–6

6.5 Linking Storage Devices Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–8

6.6 Making Sure Your Workstation Recognizes a New Drive . . . . . . . 6–12

7 Communication Devices

7.1 Connecting Communication Devices to Your Workstation . . . . . . 7–2

7.1.1 To Connect a Device with a 25-Pin Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–2

7.1.2 To Connect a Device with a Telephone-Jack Type of

Connector(MMJ).................................. 7–3

7.2 Installing a Console Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–4

7.2.1 To Connect the Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–5

7.2.2 To Activate the Terminal as the System Console . . . . . . . . . . 7–5

7.2.3 To Make Your Workstation Monitor the System Console . . . . 7–5

8 The Server Conﬁguration

8.1 Connecting a Console Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–3

8.2 HaltingaServer ..................................... 8–3

8.2.1 Default Settings for Using the Console Terminal . . . . . . . . . . 8–4

8.2.2 Operational Background Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–4

Part III Internal Additions to Your Workstation

9 Internal Storage Devices

9.1 Disk Drives That Digital Supports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–1

9.2 Installing a Floppy Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–2

9.2.1 To Check the Drive Select Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–2

9.2.2 To Install the Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–2

9.3 Making Sure Your Workstation Recognizes the Floppy Disk

Drive .............................................. 9–6

9.4 Removing a Floppy Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–7

9.5 Installing a Hard Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–8

9.5.1 To Set SCSI IDs for the RZ23L, RZ24, and RZ25 . . . . . . . . . . 9–8

9.5.1.1 RZ23L Hard Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–9

9.5.1.2 RZ24HardDiskDrive........................... 9–10

9.5.1.3 RZ25HardDiskDrive........................... 9–11

9.5.2 To Install the Hard Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–14

9.6 Making Sure Your Workstation Recognizes the Hard Disk

Drive .............................................. 9–17

9.7 Removing a Hard Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–18

10 Memory Modules

10.1 Adding Memory to Your Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–1

10.1.1 Identifying Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–2

10.1.2 To Install Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–5

10.1.3 Making Sure Your Workstation Recognizes Its Memory

Modules......................................... 10–7

10.2 Removing Memory from Your Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–8

11 CPU Modules

11.1 RemovingaCPUModule............................... 11–3

11.2 InstallingaCPUModule............................... 11–5

11.3 Testing Your CPU Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–6

11.4 TURBOchannel Option Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–7

Part IV Workstation Management

12 Using the Console Program

12.1 Operating and Console Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–1

12.2 EnteringConsoleMode ................................ 12–2

12.3 ConsoleCommands ................................... 12–3

12.3.1 The? Command................................... 12–3

12.3.2 TheBootCommand................................ 12–3

12.3.2.1 Setting the Boot Path Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–4

12.3.3 The Conﬁguration Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–5

12.3.4 The Password Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–5

12.3.4.1 ToEnteraPassword ............................ 12–5

12.3.4.2 To Clear an Existing Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–5

12.3.4.3 ToSetaNewPassword .......................... 12–5

12.3.5 The Environment Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–5

12.3.5.1 TheSetenvCommand ........................... 12–6

12.3.5.2 The Printenv Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–6

12.3.5.3 The Unsetenv Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–6

12.3.6 TheTestCommand ................................ 12–6

13 Troubleshooting

13.1 Troubleshooting Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–2

13.2 Invoking the Powerup Self-Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–3

13.3 Interpreting Video Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–4

13.4 Connecting and Using an Alternate Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–6

13.5 Minimum Conﬁguration Troubleshooting With the System

LED............................................... 13–8

13.6 Understanding the Powerup Self-Test Sequence and the LED

Display............................................. 13–9

13.6.1 The Power-up Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–10

13.7 What to Do When the Powerup LED Indicator is Inactive . . . . . . 13–13

Part V Appendices

A Equipment Speciﬁcations

A.1 Personal DECstation 5000 System Unit Equipment

Speciﬁcations........................................ A–2

A.2 VRC16 Monitor Equipment Speciﬁcations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–4

A.3 VRM17 Monitor Equipment Speciﬁcations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–6

A.4 LK501-AA Keyboard Equipment Speciﬁcations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–9

A.5 VSXXX-BB Mouse Equipment Speciﬁcations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–11

A.6 RZ23L SCSI Hard Disk Drive Equipment Speciﬁcations . . . . . . . A–13

A.7 RZ24 SCSI Hard Disk Drive Equipment Speciﬁcations . . . . . . . . A–15

A.8 RZ25 SCSI Hard Disk Drive Equipment Speciﬁcations . . . . . . . . A–17

A.9 RX26 Diskette Drive Equipment Speciﬁcations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–19

B The Audio I/O Port and Multimedia

C Part Numbers

D Connector Pin Assignments

D.1 SCSI Connector Pin Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–2

D.2 ThickWire Ethernet Connector Pin Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–3

D.3 EIA RS232 Communications Connectors Pin Assignments . . . . . D–4

D.4 Power Supply Pin Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–6

D.5 ISDN Connector Pin Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–7

D.6 SERIAL.bus......................................... D–7

D.7 SoundConnector ..................................... D–9

D.8 Loopback Connector Pin Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–9

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E Regulatory Information for the UK

E.1 ServiceRequirements ................................. E–2

E.2 Communication Port Pin Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E–2

E.3 Approvals for Digital Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E–3

E.4 Host Independent Approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E–4

E.5 HostPowerRating.................................... E–5

E.6 Environmental Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E–5

E.7 Apparatus Between the Approved Apparatus and a Digital

Circuit(PTT) ........................................ E–5

F Drives You Can Connect to Your Workstation

G Console Commands

G.1 Console Command Conventions and Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G–1

G.1.1 Conventions Used in This Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G–2

G.1.2 DeﬁnitionofTerms ................................ G–2

G.2 Summary of Console Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G–4

G.2.1 ? Command ...................................... G–5

G.2.2 bootCommand.................................... G–5

G.2.3 catCommand..................................... G–7

G.2.4 cnfgCommand.................................... G–7

G.2.5 dCommand ...................................... G–7

G.2.6 erlCommand..................................... G–8

G.2.7 goCommand ..................................... G–9

G.2.8 initCommand .................................... G–9

G.2.9 lsCommand...................................... G–9

G.2.10 passwdCommand ................................. G–10

G.2.11 printenvCommand ................................ G–10

G.2.12 restartCommand.................................. G–11

G.2.13 scriptCommand................................... G–11

G.2.14 setenvCommand .................................. G–11

G.2.15 shCommand ..................................... G–13

G.2.16 tCommand ...................................... G–14

G.2.17 testCommand .................................... G–14

G.2.18 unsetenvCommand................................ G–15

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Index

Figures

1–1 TheSystemUnit .................................. 1–3

1–2 The Front of the System Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–4

1–3 The Back of the System Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–5

1–4 Connectors on the Back of the System Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–6

1–5 Using the Antistatic Wrist Strap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–7

1–6 SystemTool ...................................... 1–8

1–7 Using the System Tool to Raise the Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–8

1–8 Removing the Cover of the System Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–9

1–9 Inside the System Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–10

1–10 Connecting the Video Cable to the VRC16 Monitor . . . . . . . . 1–12

1–11 Connecting the Video Cable to the VRM17 Monitor . . . . . . . . 1–12

1–12 Connecting the Monitor Cable to the Video Connector on the

Back of the System Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–13

1–13 Connecting the Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–14

1–14 LK501Keyboard .................................. 1–15

1–15 TiltingtheKeyboard ............................... 1–16

1–16 Connecting the Keyboard Cable to the Workstation . . . . . . . . 1–17

1–17 Connectors on the LK501 Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–18

1–18 Mouse .......................................... 1–19

1–19 ConnectingtheMouse .............................. 1–19

1–20 Power Cable and Power Cord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–20

5–1 Connecting the Loopback Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–2

5–2 Unlocking the Sliding Lock on the System Unit Ethernet

Connector........................................ 5–3

5–3 Locking the Sliding Lock on the System Unit Ethernet

Connector........................................ 5–4

5–4 ThickWire Ethernet cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–5

5–5 Connecting the ThickWire Ethernet Cable to the System

Unit............................................ 5–6

5–6 ThickWire Ethernet Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–7

5–7 Connecting the ThickWire Ethernet Cable to the System

Unit............................................ 5–8

5–8 Parts for Connecting to a ThinWire Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–9

5–9 Attaching the T-connector to the Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–9

5–10 Connecting the ThinWire Adapter to the ThickWire

Cable ........................................... 5–10

5–11 Attaching a T-connector Terminator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–11

5–12 ThickWire Ethernet Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–12

5–13 Connecting the ThickWire Ethernet Cable to the System

Unit............................................ 5–13

5–14 Parts for Connecting to a Twisted-Pair Ethernet Network . . . 5–14

5–15 Connecting the Adapter to the ThickWire Cable . . . . . . . . . . 5–15

5–16 Connecting the Twisted-Pair Cable to the Adapter . . . . . . . . 5–16

6–1 SCSI Connector on the System Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–2

6–2 Attaching a System-Unit-to-Expansion-Box Cable to the

SCSI Connector on the System Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–7

6–3 Attaching a System-Unit-to-Expansion-Box Cable to a

TypicalExpansionBox.............................. 6–8

6–4 Connecting Expansion Boxes in a Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–9

6–5 Terminating the Final Expansion Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–10

6–6 Connecting a Power Cord to an Expansion Box . . . . . . . . . . . 6–11

7–1 Connectors and Adapter for Communication Devices . . . . . . . 7–2

7–2 Connecting a 25-pin Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–3

7–3 A Communications Connector Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–3

7–4 Using an Adapter to Connect a Communications Device to

theSystemUnit................................... 7–4

8–1 Installing a Console Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–2

9–1 Checking the Drive Select Number on a Floppy Disk

Drive ........................................... 9–2

9–2 Floppy Disk Drive and Mounting Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–3

9–3 Connecting the FDI Cable and the Internal Drive Power

Cable to the Floppy Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–4

9–4 Installing the Floppy Disk Drive in the System Unit . . . . . . . 9–5

9–5 Connecting the FDI Cable and the Internal Drive Power

Cable ........................................... 9–6

9–6 Removing a Floppy Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–8

9–7 SCSI ID Jumper Settings for the RZ23L Hard Disk Drive. . 9–9

9–8 SCSI ID Jumper Settings for the RZ24 Hard Disk Drive . . . . 9–10

9–9 SCSI ID Jumper Settings Using the Pins on the Side of the

Drive ........................................... 9–12

9–10 SCSI ID Settings Using the Pins on the Front of the

Drive ........................................... 9–13

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