20 Mar
2006
20 Mar
'06
5:56 p.m.
"Pete Edwards" <stimpy.u.idiot at gmail.com> wrote:
Can anyone help me get hold of a copy of the above? I
understand there are 2
versions, 1 was shipped with the system and
the field services version, which is a separately licensed product.
My BA23 uVAX II is throwing machine checks, it seems like diags are the
first place to start, any other suggestions?
The diagnostics aren't really helpful here. At best they let you
format a RD5x that is already formatted. I have NEVER seen the
uVax field diagnostics (either "customer" or "field service")
actually
help diagnose a problem more serious than blown line drivers on
a RS-232 port (and we knew that already!)
Tips:
#-1: Any complaints from the power-on self test?
#0: Post the details of your machine check. In my experience most
of them are from buggy drivers/misconfiguration. Old versions of
UCX are pure crap on a network shared with modern Windows machines
etc. Are you getting a crash dump?
#1: Get rid of everything except the CPU and minimal memory and system
disk controller. Boot VMS. Still have the same problem? If so, it's
something in that subset of hardware/software.
#2: Add hardware. When it starts crashing again, you found
the problem.
Tim.