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(Sorry for the dupe post, I originally posted this in the Avaya forum, then realized this one is probably more appropriate. I will ask the mods to close the other post).

I think we have a bad Hard Drive on our Octel VMX 100, I have managed to build a serial cable and get the MAINT pw, so I ran the tests:


---------------- SYSTEM SOFTWARE RELEASE A.7.1.4 (03/06/96) ----------------
(c)1996 Octel Comm. Corp. All Rights Reserved
FRI 08/08 10:55:50 2008 xxxxxxxx ID:1021xx S/N:1142xx PBX:81 PBX:81

(MODEM ENABLED) LAST LOGON: 08/07 14:51
@PASSWORD:
@
@
@HELP

THE VALID COMMANDS ARE:
$ APURGE BAUD BITTST CDR CDRENA CKS
CLEAR CPURGE DDBG DEV DEXER DH DIR
DTMF ECHO H HD HELP INSTAL KERMIT
LDEBUG LIST MAP MODEM MON2 MWL MWOFF
NETNAM PASS PAUSE PCHD PRTONE PSTAT PTCB
RESTAR RESTOR SDBG SETE SUBMIT TEST TIME
UPDATE VSA
@
@DEX 1
REGION 01 COMPLETE DISK #1: 00512 DISK #2: 00000 MISMATCHES: 00000
** ERROR IN OPENING CONFIGURATION FILE: PEGTBL
** ERROR IN OPENING CONFIGURATION FILE: PRTPEG
** ERROR IN OPENING CONFIGURATION FILE: COSPEG
** ERROR IN OPENING CONFIGURATION FILE: TRCTBL
** ERROR IN OPENING CONFIGURATION FILE: SERTBL
** ERROR IN OPENING CONFIGURATION FILE: HDWTBL
** ERROR IN OPENING CONFIGURATION FILE: TCBTBL
** ERROR IN OPENING CONFIGURATION FILE: CHDTBL
REGION 02 COMPLETE DISK #1: 18432 DISK #2: 00000 MISMATCHES: 00000
REGION 04 COMPLETE DISK #1: 36864 DISK #2: 00000 MISMATCHES: 00000
REGION 08 COMPLETE DISK #1: 08192 DISK #2: 00000 MISMATCHES: 00000
REGION 10 COMPLETE DISK #1: 65535 DISK #2: 00000 MISMATCHES: 00000
DISK EXERCISE COMPLETE
@
@C H
** ERROR IN OPENING CONFIGURATION FILE: HDWTBL
@LH
ILLEGAL COMMAND
@L H
FRI 08/08 11:15:58 2008 xxxxxxxx ID:1021xx S/N:1142xx PBX:81
CLEARED: 08/08 11:15
SYSTEM IN DEGRADED DISK MODE!
ALL PORTS DOWN DUE TO VCU ERRORS!
TABLE IS EMPTY
@


Any hope for getting the software to rebuild onto a new drive (I may have a few older SCSI drives that should work, but I don't see any way to load the software)?

If that's not practical, will a Toshiba Strategy voicebrick work to replace this? I may be able to acquire one..

It's connected to a DK280 system that I don't know very well...

Any help is much appreciated.

-Barrey

Repairing that is really not practical. It is probably close to 15 years old and has been discontinued for around 10 years. A Stratagy Flash(aka VoiceBrick)will work just fine on a DK280.

That's pretty much what I was thinking, thanks.

So for now, while we eval various VOIP setups, we will use a refurb CICS 8x16 and CallPilot 100 to tide us over.

Since I've not programmed Norstar before (Definity G3i/AUDIX was the last serious phone stuff I did before dealing with this antique DK280 and VMX100), any helpful tips are much appreciated.

Is the initial system programming best done from a phone or from a PC with NRU? (assuming that the I-RAD is activated on this system).

Since I seem to have strayed somewhat from the intent of this section, I'll post this and future questions in the Nortel area.

Thanks again,
Barrey