Getting it home and hooked up, it goes thru the
usual VAXStation boot
sequence ending in the >>> chevron prompt.
Attempting to boot, >>> b (ret)
produces a 1 minute wait and returns
40 NOSUCHDEV
06 HLT INST
PC=00000C66
the first time after power-up and
40 NOSUCHDEV
84 FAIL
Not a real guru, but: you might try SHO DEV at the chevron. My
4000VLC could be set to boot from a device (like the ethernet) that's
not working, and I'm not so sure it would necessarily spin the hard
drive if it wasn't trying to boot from it. SHO DEV seems to do that,
though, as well as telling whether the drive electronics are
correctly describing it over the SCSI cable, SCSI is working, etc.
Is that available on a 3100? Gurus? Anyone there?
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- Mark
210-522-6025, page 888-733-0967