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
work Conguration T
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
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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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haracter(s) prin
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Return
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FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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ey as it app ears at the b ottom of a
terminal screen or window.
Example:
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
PERFORM TASK
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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
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Figure 2-2. System Unit in Deskside Orientation
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System Unit Switches
Before turning on y
our system, y
ou should become familiar with the system
unit switc
hes. The po
w
er switc
his in the fron
tofthe unit on the righ
tside.
The other switc
hes are b ehind a small bezel do or just ab o
v
ethe po
w
er switc
h
(see Figure 2-3).
These are the functions of the system unit switc
hes:
P
o
w
er switc
hT
urns system unit p ow
er on and o.
T
ransfer-of-con
trol switch Restarts the w
orkstation b
yresetting the
operating system.
Service switch Used only during man
ufacturing. Y
ou will not
need to use this switc
h.
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Figure 2-3. System Unit Switch Locations
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Understanding the LEDs
On the fron
tof the system unit is abezel door. When the do or is closed,
v
eLEDs can beview
ed through small \windows". Beside eac
h windo
wis a
sym
bol indicating the meaning asso ciated with the activit
yof eac
hLED.
T
able 2-1. LED Symbols and Their Meanings
Sym
bol LED Activit
yMeaning
On/O Po
w
er on/p o
w
er o
Flashing T
ransmitting to LAN
Flashing Receiving from LAN
Flashing Disk activit
y
Slo
wash System \heartbeat"
Note
If the \heartb eat" LED remains o or on for a long p erio d of
time, it ma
y mean that you system is \h
ung" (incapable of
further pro cessing). See Chapter 6 for suggestions on ho
wto
deal with this condition.
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Figure 2-4. LED Windo
ws
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The Rear of the System Unit
On the rear of the system unit, y
ou will nd the connectors y
ou will use
to attachperipherals to y
our w
orkstation. The connectors are moun
ted on
bulkheads
:metal
panels that cov
er p ortions of the rear of the w
orkstation.
Y
ou can get access to most of the in
ternal parts of y
our w
orkstation by
remo
ving these bulkheads. Y
ou will nd descriptions of these in
ternal parts in
Chapter 5.
Figure 2-5. The Rear P
anel of the System Unit
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The Disk Tra
yBulkhead
This panel co
v
ers the
disk tra
y
,whic
hholds up to t
w
o3.5 inchdisk driv
es.
The bulkhead is on the left side of the system unit as you view it from the rear.
See Figure 2-5
.
The disk tray bulkhead has apair of SCSI (Small Computer Systems In
terface)
connectors. (See Figure 2-6
.Y
ou will nd more information about these
connectors in Chapter 5.
Figure 2-6. SCSI Connectors on the Disk Tray
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The I/O Bulkhead
The I/O (input/output) connectors are moun
ted on the I/O bulkhead. The
I/O bulkhead is in the cen
ter of the rear panel, abo
v
ethe graphics in
terface
slot. (See Figure 2-5
.)
The I/O connectors are illustrated in Figure 2-7
.
Figure 2-7. Connectors Mounted on the I/O Bulkhead
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The P
o
w
er Supply Bulkhead
This panel co
v
ers the po
w
er supply
.It has aplug connector for the po
wer cord.
The po
w
er supply bulkhead is on the right side of the system unit as y
ou view
it from the rear. See Figure 2-5
.
Figure 2-8. The P
ow
er Supply Bulkhead
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VSC (Graphic) Interface Bulkhead
You will nd the bulkhead for the graphic in
terface for y
our w
orkstation just
belo
wthe I/O bulkhead. (See Figure 2-5.) The connector to an external
graphic pro cessor will be moun
ted on this bulkhead.
The circuit card that is behind the bulkhead pro
vides an in
terface that
connects y
our w
orkstation to an external graphic pro cessor, whic
his in turn
connected to avideo displa
ymonitor. (See Figure 2-9.)
Figure 2-9. Graphic Interface Card Bulkhead
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