Have u tried replacing said dead battery would start there On Jul 30, 2016 12:51 PM, "Pontus Pihlgren" <pon...@update.uu.se> wrote:
> Hi > > I'm trying to revive and old unix machine. A Concurrent Computer > Corporation series 8000. This seems to be a later version of Masscomp > MC5600/MC5700 which has a manual in bitsavers. The system runs RTU > (which I assumes means Real Time Unix). > > My machine is in great condition and both SCSI disks (Seagate ST516) > seems to work fine and I've made images. But the machine panics at boot: > > --- > panic: Unauthorized use of RTU > For further assistance, contact Concurrent's > Customer Service Technical Support Group > --- > > The NVRAM battery is long dead and upon entering the console I get a > complaint regarding the TOD clock, but I see no way of setting it. > > I can boot into a "stand alone mode" but not single user. In the SAM I > can poke arround the filesystem and use "date" to set a date, but the > clock appears not to be running. > > Does anyone have experience with this type of machine, either CCC or > masscomp and can offer assistance? > > It's a dual MIPS machine with 16MB of memory. > > /P >
