ND-110 Satellite 9883.21005/Sintran install

This page documents installation of SINTRAN III, release M on a SCSI hard drive in a ND-110 Satellite machine (9883.21005).

Requirements - what you need

• a machine which can run SINTRAN III, release M
  • 3095 CPU, Level H (is the the same as ECO H?) mine is ECO J.
• install floppies
  • 250305M05-XX-01D - floppy 1 - this is the floppy you start with
  • 250305M05-XX-02D - floppy 2 - this contains the second part of the SINTRAN III installation
  • 250305M05-XX-03D - floppy 3 - this contains NEW-SYSTEM:PROG and symbol lists.

Installation

Insert floppy 1 and close the floppy drive. Then type on the console

MACL
1560&

all commands must be typed in upper case. Note: you don't press the ENTER (carrige return) button after 1560&. This will start loading from floppy, and if it works you will soon see this on the console

MACM-1718-Q
FEBRUARY 5, 1988
GIVE DISK TYPE AS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING OCTAL NUMBERS:
 0: DISC-14MB
 1: DISC-21MB
 2: DISC-23MB
 3: DISC-28MB
 4: DISC-30MB    (DISC-60MB/DISC-90MB)
 5: DISC-33MB
 6: DISC-38MB
 7: DISC-45MB
10: DISC-66MB
11: DISC-70MB
12: DISC-74MB    (BUTTERFLY: DISC-36MB-C, DISC-49MB, DISC-77MB)
13: DISC-75MB
14: DISC-140MB   (DISC-2-70MB)
15: DISC-2-75MB
16: DISC-288MB-R (DISC-225MB-R/DISC-3-75MB/DISC-4-70MB-R)
17: DISC-288MB-F (DISC-225MB-F/DISC-4-70MB-F)
20: DISC-450MB-F (DISC-2-225MB-F/DISC-6-70MB-F)
21: DISC-288MB-E (DISC-225MB-E/DISC-4-70MB-E)
22: DISC-450MB-N (DISC-2-225MB-N/DISC-6-70MB-N)
23: DISC-288MB-N (DISC-225MB-N/DISC-4-70MB-N)
24: SCSI

DISC TYPE: 

I have a SCSI disk drive, so I input 24. The program writes

INITIALIZED FOR:
SCSI
REMEMBER THE MACM COMMANDS:
)REDEF => REDEFINE DISC TYPE
)HENT  => GET SINTRAN FROM SAVE-AREA
22!    => START SINTRAN
10,0$  => LOAD SINTRAN FROM DISKETTE

TYPE ANY MACM COMMAND:

and you start the installation by writing

10,0$

on the console (don't press ENTER after '$'). Then you just follow the instructions given until the installation is complete.

Installation screenshots

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History

2016-09-06: I did another install on the Seagate ST31200N drive after setblocksize changed it to 1024 byte blocks. Unfortunately, the machine still fails to boot like before. same error message too.

2016-07-18: First I wrote a known good image to the drive, then I did a SINTRAN III install over it. No change, the machine still fails to boot.

2016-07-13: First install. The install succeeded, but the machine fails to boot.