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Page 34 Installation Instructions: Roadrunner 030 & 040 AM-1000 / AM-1200 Upgrade
12.4Connect DC Power Cable to Roadrunner Board
The Roadrunner installation kit includes a special DC power harness that has three DC
power connectors. One of the connectors plugs into the Roadrunner board; one
connector plugs into the SCSI disk drive; and the third connector plugs into the DC
power cable previously connected to the disk drive in your non-Roadrunner
configuration. Although these connectors are keyed, with extra force they can be
installed incorrectly, so be careful.
13.0BOOTING THE NEW ROADRUNNER HARDWARE
In order to perform the steps outlined in this section, your disk drive must be properly
configured with a bootable Roadrunner compatible AMOS operating system. If you are
using your existing drive, the instructions in this section assume that you have already
configured your software, based on the instructions in Appendix C, prior to installing the
Roadrunner hardware.
If you installed a new SCSI disk drive that was pre-loaded with a bootable Roadrunner
compatible copy of AMOS, your computer is ready to boot.
SCSI drives factory loaded with a bootable Roadrunner compatible AMOS operating
system are configured with the simple dispatcher, SIMRR.SYS. The simple dispatcher is
intended for temporary use only. To configure the high performance SCSI dispatcher,
you must purchase the PIC for the dispatcher from Alpha Micro and configure it as
described in Appendix C.
Turn the computer’s power switch to the on position and your Roadrunner hardware will
start the boot process just as your old CPU board did. If the SCSI dispatcher was not
defined in your system initialization command file prior to turning off the computer and
removing your old CPU board, an error message similiar to this:
?The SCSI dispatcher must be defined in order to use this driver
will be displayed on your terminal. This error will be displayed each time a DEVTBL
statement for a SCSI magnetic tape drive is encountered in your system initialization
command file. While this error will not prevent the computer from booting, none of your
magnetic tape devices will work until the dispatcher is defined.
14.0INITIAL SYSTEM TESTING
After installation is complete, run the Roadrunner Self Test program to make sure each
subsystem is functional. The self test diagnostics are incorporated into the boot PROMs
on the Roadrunner. Refer to the
Alpha Micro Self Test User’s Guide
for instructions.
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