Re: Failed RTC connection

Posted by oftakofta on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Failed-RTC-connection-tp7591048p7591070.html

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Hi, we had this problem on our 510 some years back when I was working in
Norway. I posted the solution on the confocal list then. Here is the link:
http://confocal-microscopy-list.588098.n2.nabble.com/How-to-repair-a-broken-RTC-on-a-Zeiss-LSM-510-td7583065.html

Jens Eriksson
Uppsala university

On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, 16:47 Zdenek Svindrych, <[hidden email]> wrote:

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> There won't be many VxWorks experts around here... But yes, this looks like
> a corrupted drive.
> It could also be BIOS configuration, I would definitely try to toggle
> between IDE and AHCI settings in BIOS (provided the drive is connected
> through SATA).
> Another thought: Zeiss might have an easy way to recover the RT computer,
> maybe TFTP/BOOTP, but this will be hard to figure out without Zeiss' help.
> Good luck!
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> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:42 AM Craig Brideau <[hidden email]>
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> > That looks like some sort of drive failure. BLK_DEV is basically the
> > description of the hardware and how to use it, so if you can't initiate
> it
> > then the hardware might not be responding to the bootloader/BIOS.
> >
> > Craig
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> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:32 PM Prof. K. S. Krishnamurthy <
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> > > Dear Dr Estaban,
> > > Good morning.
> > > We tried using a monitor. We get the error message shown in the image
> > > uploaded to my google drive:
> > >
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> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OaWJKOEufbFJTz4_wbHNDWrmcViuGtZw/view?usp=sharing
> > > Any suggestions?
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> > > Krishnamurthy
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> > > > You can also connect a monitor to the RTC to see what it’s doing and
> if
> > > > it
> > > > gives a clue to what to try.
> > > >
> > > > -Esteban
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> > > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 9:37 PM Prof. Dr. K. S. Krishnamurthy <
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> > > >> Good morning. Thank you for the input. Our computer engineer tried
> > using
> > > >> the keyboard, but did not succeed in booting.
> > > >>
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