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

January 1991

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Edition 1.

January 1991

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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

hav

e receiv

ed with y

our computer and its system soft

are.

How to Use This Guide

Use this guide to learn about these things:

wto start up y

our system

wto in

teract with y

our w

orkstation

wto expand y

our w

orkstation b

yadding in

ternal peripherals lik

ememory

cards and disk driv

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

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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Edition 1.

wThis Guide Is Organized

Eac

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

er, log in, log out and turn

o the po

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

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

ard support and

service personnel.

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Audience

This guide is in

tended for use b

y service personnel and b

wners of HP Apollo

9000 Mo del 720/730 w

orkstations.

ad Me

Documents

Please refer to the release documen

ts y

ou receiv

ed with y

our system. These

documen

ts ha

etitles that begin with the phrase \

ead Me

." In these

documen

ts y

ou will nd information that ma

ynot ha

ebeen included in this

guide at the time of its publication.

Problems, Questions, and Suggestions

eappreciate commen

ts from the people who use our computer systems. Use

the

ader R

esp

onse Car

con

tained in this guide to submit commen

ts about

the guide.

Getting Help

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

.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

tions.

term

Marks the rst app earance of aw

ord and phrase that is used as

terminology

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

Men

uItem

The lab el of amen

u item.

Example: Select

Net

work Conguration T

asks

to contin

ue.

computer output

Indicates one of the follo

wing:

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

example: \The

/etc/config

program ..."

user input

ext that is to bet

yp ed in

to acomputer system b

yauser. Example:

$pwd

variable name

ariable whose v

alue m

ust besupplied b

ytheuser.

Example:

is acommand en

tered b

ythe user, and

lename1

and

lename2

represen

tthe names of the argumen

ts to the command:

$cp

lename1 lename2

emphasize

dtext

Apointof emphasis.

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Back up al lles b

efor

epr

ding further.

Keycap

The c

haracter(s) prin

ted on a k

eycap.

Example:

Return

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Function Key

This indicates the lab el of a function k

ey as it app ears at the b ottom of a

terminal screen or window.

Example:

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

PERFORM TASK

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Edition 1. 1-5

our HP Apollo 9000 Model 720/730

orkstation

This c

hapter pro

vides an in

tro duction to y

our HP Apollo 9000 Mo del 720

orkstation and its componen

ts. It describes the following:

The lo cations of the system unit's switc

hes

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

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

Figure 2-1. System Unit in Desktop Orientation

2-2 Your HP Apollo 9000 Model 720/730 Workstation

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