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APX 1000™ Getting Started Guide
Installing an APX 1000 Chassis
Powering up an APX 1000 unit
Powering up an APX 1000 unit
Note:
Before powering up an unconfigured APX 1000 unit, you must connect it to a
workstation. For instructions, see “Connecting a workstation to the APX 1000 serial port” on
page 3-12.
To power up your new APX 1000 unit:
1
Position yourself so that you can observe the lights on the back panel while you view the
monitor display.
2
Turn on the power to the unit.
After a few minutes, the terminal emulator displays system messages. If the messages do
not appear, press Ctrl+L to refresh the screen. If they still do not appear, verify that the
terminal emulator is connected with a straight-through serial cable and is using the
settings listed in step 2 of “Connecting a workstation to the APX 1000 serial port” on
page 3-12.
3
Check the PCMCIA flash card file system to verify that the card and its contents have no
errors. Enter the Fsck command as shown in the following example:
admin> fsck 1
Volume Stats:
Block Size: 512 (typical: 512)
Blocks Per Cluster: 16 (typical: 1, may be powers of 2 up to 16)
Reserved Blocks: 1 (typical: 1, but may be 0 - hundreds)
Number of FATs: 2 (must be 2)
Number of Root Directory Entries: 512 (typically between 32 and 224)
Total Blocks: 62592
Media Descriptor: f8 (ignored)
Volume Info calculated from values above:
Blocks Per Fat: 12
Fat Start Block: 1
Root Dir Start Block: 25
Data Start Block: 57
Number of Root Dir Blocks: 32
Number of Clusters: 3908
FAT Type: Fat12
Cluster Usage
Usable Clusters: 3906
Free Clusters: 2676
Clusters lost during interrupted writes: 0
Other reserved clusters: 1222
Installing or replacing APX 1000 slot cards
The APX 1000 product is designed to serve primarily as a remote access server for data and
voice over data connections. It is shipped with specific slot cards to support this role.
Some slot cards from the larger APX family of products are not appropriate for installation in
an APX 1000 unit. If you are installing a slot card that was not shipped with the APX 1000,
make sure that it is appropriate for installation in this unit, and that the software running on the
APX 1000 supports the card.
