1 Apr
2007
1 Apr
'07
12:53 p.m.
[...]
I powered up everything including the RX02. When I hit
load, the drive spun
up and came ready. No fault at all. The RL02 and RX02 both boot & work fine.
Oh %deity... You've got the worst sort of fault there, one that
disappears when you look for it.
Since you've done nothing to really cure it, you will always worry it'll
come back and bite you sometime.... been there, done that..
[...]
Perhaps it is cables. I'll be trying again
tomorrow to reproduce the problem
and hope it reoccurs :\
My guess is a bad connection somewhere that you disturbed when looking at
the signals in the RL02. Maybe a bad contact at one of the cable
connecotrs, maybe a dry joint on a chip in the RL02 (althogh to be fair,
dry joints are not ocmmon in DEC hardware).
One thing is certain. It's a total waste of time looking for a fault
that's not (currently) there. Unless you can get it to come back, there's
little, if anything, you can really do .Cleaning and reseating the
conenctors may make you feel a little happier, but, equally, it may have
nothing at all to do with the problem.
-tony