CAN'T ACCESS DEVICE

Peter J. Holsberg pjh at mccc.UUCP
Mon Feb 22 12:03:17 AEST 1988


In article <3315 at cup.portal.com> itkin at cup.portal.com writes:
|First, since you're running uugetty, are you also running uugetty on the
|other systems?  
Uugetty on the 3b2, but getty on the 3b1.  No HDB is available for my 3b1s.

|My understanding of uugetty is that they must be paired.
I don't think that needed.

|Thus, if the UNIX PC is running getty, you may get into a feedback loop
|and the port may shutdown.  Clearly, there is something wrong with the
|connection to pc0.
Clearly!  
|
|Second thought is have you verified that the cable to pc0 is a good
|cable.  The cabling on the 3B2 is a little different, and a cable that
|works for a 3b2<->3b2 connection probably wouldn't work directly with a
|UNIX PC.  
What's a "good cable"?  It works fine when I use the 3b1 as a dumb
terminal  to the 3b2.

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