System Parity Check in my 3b2/400

[sp]

Hello. I own one 3b2/400 with a couple of 72 Mb Hard Disks. All went
well, but I couldn't start up the system during last three months. When
I start up it now, all goes well until the moment after the login
screen... when I login, the system sends me one message about "SYSTEM
PARITY CHECK" continously. How can I solve this ?

By the way, I was searching for some items to expand this system. In
particular, network and scsi/esdi cards plus some external storage. I
live in Europe (Spain).

Thanks in advance

Regards
Sergio

[Stephen Jones]

sp <sped...@ono.com> wrote:
>Hello. I own one 3b2/400 with a couple of 72 Mb Hard Disks. All went
>well, but I couldn't start up the system during last three months. When
>I start up it now, all goes well until the moment after the login
>screen... when I login, the system sends me one message about "SYSTEM
>PARITY CHECK" continously. How can I solve this ?

Do you mean SANITY CHECK? It maybe that your clock battery has died.
Do you get:
SYSTEM FAILURE: CONSULT YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION UTILITIES GUIDE

If so, type 'mcp'
Then select /unix
Then boot off of the primary hard drive.

>By the way, I was searching for some items to expand this system. In
>particular, network and scsi/esdi cards plus some external storage. I
>live in Europe (Spain).

I have a SCSI host adapter and you could use it to with an external array
with a 50 pin ribbon connector. I do not have any spare network cards.