26 Sep
2021
26 Sep
'21
7:03 a.m.
I was either sacrifice a data drive to make it a backup of the primary or
find a like drive first, get the system stable and then upgrade. I have a
3000 too here if you want to work together to troubleshoot yours
Bill
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021, 9:46 AM Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Sep 26, 2021, at 12:22 AM, Alexander Jacocks via
cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
REV
v6 SCSI2SD
in a DEC 3000?
I?ve got a DEC 3000/300 system that has some SCSI drives with aging
bearings
installed. I?d like to be able to start to migrate some of my
systems, like this, to flash media, of some kind, as even my large
repository of SCSI disks is starting to dry up.
Here is my SRM level info:
DEC 3000 - M300
Digital Equipment Corporation
VPP PAL V5.56-80800101/OSF PAL V1.45-80800201 - Built on 30-SEP-1996
09:18:31.84
As far as I have read, the SCSI2SD v6 2020 should be compatible with
several
varieties of DEC hardware, from the VAXen to the Alphas. However, I
can?t seem to get anywhere useful with mine. I have the virtual disks
configured as follows:
>> sh dev
BOOTDEV ADDR DEVTYPE NUMBYTES RM/FX WP DEVNAM ------- ---- ------- --------
----- -- ------
---
ESA0 08-00-2B-3F-4C-9A , TENBT
DKA100 A/1/0 DISK 9.54GB FX RZ40
6.0
DKA300 A/3/0 DISK 9.54GB
FX RZ40
6.0
DKA400 A/4/0 RODISK 305.01MB
RM WP RRD45
6.0
All three disks are from the SCSI2SD. I have attempted to make the
inquiry strings
match the originals, as closely as possible. In the SCSI2SD
utility, I have the following config:
General page: all defaults, termination off (I have tried parity, scsi2
mode, and
setting SCSI speed to sync, with no improvement)
Device 1: enabled, ID 1, device Hard Drive, start
sector 0, sector size
512, sector count 18636800, vendor ?DEC ", product
?RZ40 ?,
revision ? 6.0?, serial number <random string>
Device 2: enabled, ID 3, device Hard Drive, start
sector 18636800,
sector size 512, sector count 18636800, vendor ?DEC ",
product ?RZ40
?, revision ? 6.0?, serial number <random string + 1>
Device 3: enabled, ID 4, device CDROM, start
sector 37273600, sector
size 2048, sector count 148933, vendor ?DEC ",
product ?RRD45 ?,
revision ? 6.0?, serial number <random string + 2>
I?ve also tried booting from a virtual CDROM, only, with no luck there,
either. In
all cases, I get the following from SRM:
>> test scsi
T-STS-SCSI A - Data
Trans test
? T-ERR-SCSI A - Data Trans test - nondma/sync inq size miscompare
T-ERR-SCSI A - id = 1 lun = 0
? T-ERR-SCSI A - Data Trans test - nondma/sync inq size miscompare
T-ERR-SCSI A - id = 3 lun = 0
? T-ERR-SCSI A - Data Trans test - nondma/sync inq size miscompare
T-ERR-SCSI A - id = 4 lun = 0
?? 002 SCSI 0x0008
84 FAIL
Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this? Has anyone tried a
Thanks!
- Alex
I picked up a couple v6 boards for my AlphaStation 200 4/233, but haven?t
tried to use them yet.
Are you using the onboard SCSI, or a SCSI board? I?m ?going to assume
you?ve tried a different cable, and to get it working from actual physical
drives? Have you tried turning the termination on, on the board? Is your
SCSI Bus Terminated?
You actually have RZ40?s in the system? I?m asking as I?m not actually
familiar with that drive type, at least it?s not one I remember off the top
fo my head. I usually use RZ29?s. On my v5.2 board on my VAXstation
4000/90 I think I went with basic 8GB drives, without a vendor string or
product string.