HP Model 720 - Workstation User manual

HP Apollo 9000 Model 720/730
Owner's Guide
for HP-UX Users
HP 9000 Series 700 Computers
ABCDE
HP Part No. A1926-90001
Printed in USA January 1991
Edition 1
E0191

1
January 1991
...
Edition 1.
January 1991 ... Edition 1. 1-1

About This Guide
In this section y
ou will nd information about the organization of this guide
and the audience for whic
hit is in
tended. You will also nd references to other
documents and directions for y
ou to to commen
tupon or ask questions ab out
this guide.
The
HP Ap
ol lo 9000 Mo
del 720/730 Owner's Guide
describes y
our HP Apollo
9000 Mo del 720/730 w
orkstation. It also refers to other do cumen
ts that y
ou
hav
e receiv
ed with y
our computer and its system soft
w
are.
How to Use This Guide
Use this guide to learn about these things:
ho
wto start up y
our system
ho
wto in
teract with y
our w
orkstation
ho
wto expand y
our w
orkstation b
yadding in
ternal peripherals lik
ememory
cards and disk driv
es
ho
wto determine the cause of problems with the system hardw
are.
This guide will either giv
especic directions for eac
hof these matters or direct
y
ou to other documen
ts or online resources that will explain ho
wto do these
things.
When to Use This Guide
Use this guide
after
you hav
e installed your system. T
oinstall y
our system
follo
wthe instructions in the
HP Apol lo 9000 Mo
del 720/730 Instal lation
Guide
.
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Ho
wThis Guide Is Organized
Eac
hc
hapter contains sp ecic information ab out y
our system.
Read Chapter 2to learn about y
our w
orkstation's parts, connectors,
switc
hes, con
trols and indicators.
Read Chapter 3to learn ho
wto turn on the po
w
er, log in, log out and turn
o the po
w
er safely
.
Read Chapter 3to learn about the h
uman in
terfaces that come with y
our
system. This c
hapter will help y
ou decide if y
ou wish to use the HP Visual
User En
vironmen
tor an HP-UX shell to con
trol y
our w
orkstation.
Read Chapter 4 to learn ab out HP-UX and to nd out ho
wto load
applications on y
our w
orkstation using
/etc/update
.
Read Chapter 5to learn ho
wto add memory and in
ternal peripheral devices
to your workstation. This c
hapter will also sho
wy
ou where to attachthe
cables that connect y
our w
orkstation to external p eripherals.
Read Chapter 6to learn ho
wto diagnose hardw
are problems and to learn
when and ho
wto ask for assistance from Hewlett P
ac
k
ard support and
service personnel.
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Audience
This guide is in
tended for use b
y service personnel and b
yo
wners of HP Apollo
9000 Mo del 720/730 w
orkstations.
Re
ad Me
Documents
Please refer to the release documen
ts y
ou receiv
ed with y
our system. These
documen
ts ha
v
etitles that begin with the phrase \
R
ead Me
." In these
documen
ts y
ou will nd information that ma
ynot ha
v
ebeen included in this
guide at the time of its publication.
Problems, Questions, and Suggestions
W
eappreciate commen
ts from the people who use our computer systems. Use
the
R
e
ader R
esp
onse Car
d
con
tained in this guide to submit commen
ts about
the guide.
Getting Help
Y
ou ma
yneed assistance from time to time. In this man
ual, the person who
pro
vides help is called the
designated service represen
tativ
e
.Chec
kwith the
appropriate part
y(y
our purc
hasing departmen
t, for example) to nd out where
to request service.
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Typeface Conv
entions
Unless otherwise noted in the text, this guide uses the follo wing t
ypeface
con
v
en
tions.
term
Marks the rst app earance of aw
ord and phrase that is used as
terminology
.T
erms are explained immediately or dened further in a
glossary
.
Example: The practice of copying les on
to other media for safe storage is
called bac
kup .
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uItem
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u item.
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Net
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asks
to contin
ue.
computer output
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wing:
T
ext output from acomputer system, usually app earing on aterminal
screen. Example:
Console login:
The literal name of softw
are elements, suc
has les and programs. F
or
example: \The
/etc/config
program ..."
user input T
ext that is to bet
yp ed in
to acomputer system b
yauser. Example:
$pwd
variable name
Av
ariable whose v
alue m
ust besupplied b
ytheuser.
Example:
cp
is acommand en
tered b
ythe user, and
lename1
and
lename2 represen
tthe names of the argumen
ts to the command:
$cp
lename1 lename2
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Back up al lles b
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Example:
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PERFORM TASK
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2
Y
our HP Apollo 9000 Model 720/730
W
orkstation
This c
hapter pro
vides an in
tro duction to y
our HP Apollo 9000 Mo del 720
w
orkstation and its componen
ts. It describes the following:
The lo cations of the system unit's switc
hes
Ho
wto in
terpret the LED indicators of system activity
The parts of the rear panel of the system, including:
The disk tra
ybulkhead
The I/O bulkhead and its connectors
The po
w
er supply bulkhead
The VSC (graphic) in
terface bulkhead
The monitor and its con
trols
Your HP Apollo 9000 Model 720/730 Workstation 2-1

System Unit Placement
The system unit
is the at bo
xthat con
tains the computer itself. The system
unit ma
ybeinstalled at on the desktop (see Figure 2-1), or it maybeset on
its side for deskside placemen
t. A \fo ot" stabilizer has been included for this
purpose. (See the
HP Ap
ol lo 9000 Mo
del 720 Instal lation Guide
for information
about placemen
t.) If y
our system has b een installed vertically on its \fo ot," it
will resemble Figure 2-2.Most
of the illustrations in this guide assume desktop
(at) placemen
t.
Figure 2-1. System Unit in Desktop Orientation
2-2 Your HP Apollo 9000 Model 720/730 Workstation