3B2/300 [NVRAM SANITY FAILURE]

[Philip A. Gross]

venta at otello.sublink.org (Paolo Ventafridda) writes:

>In article <36122 at nigel.ee.udel.edu>, rohn at cis.udel.edu (David C. Rohn) writes:
>> I have recently gotten hold of a 3B2/300 running system V. Upon trying to
>> boot the machine I get the following:
>> 
>> 	FW ERROR 1-01:	NVRAM SANITY FAILURE
>> 			DEFAULT VALUES ASSUMED
>> 			IF REPEATED, CHECK THE BATTERY

This typically is due to the lithium battery running out of juice and needs
to be replaced.  The battery is a TADIRAN TL-5242 3.6V High Energy Lithium
Battery.  You can either pay through the nose to get it from AT&T or check
out a PC magazine to find the name of a computer battery supplier who may
carry this type of battery.  You will have to remove the card cage from
the motherboard in order to install the replacement.

>> 
>> 	FW ERROR 1-02:	DISK SANITY FAILURE
>> 

This may be fixed by using the IDTOOLS diskette that comes with the AT&T
3B2 Maintenance Reference Manual.  There is an option when using this
diskette for fixing a disk's sanity.  Otherwise, at the worst you might
have to reformat and partition the drive, etc.

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