2 May
2000
2 May
'00
12:10 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 01:57
Subject: Re: VAX/VLC firmware upgrade?
Try again ;-)
The VLC is a nice SCSI box, and with 24 MByte Ram not even that bad for VMS.
owners.
(c) !
Good luck,
emanuel
No issues in that regard. I'm running the RZ24L
that came inside of it. I
did get the occasional bit of flakiness before I got it terminated but
once
that was done loaded VMS and NetBSD just fine.
I use for this purpose a nice expensive active terminator. Really helps if
you don't know if your termination is right, specialy, if you're mixing
SCSI1 & SCSI 2 devices.
And check the cable !
I'm using a Sun CD-ROM to load is (I know,
Horrors!)
Its only a 2x drive but it does work.
It's definitely faster than a 72x drive which doesn't work ;-)
>Plus I think it dislikes my 'floater'
CD-ROM. This is the CD-ROM I use
on
>*everything* that's SCSI. The wierd thing is,
I've used it to load other
>DEC systems, but I had to flip the blocksize switch, and I'm just about
>positive I just flipped it to 2048-byte blocks, WTF!
I took mine, put in in the right block mode an labeled it "DEC !!!". And
never change it again !
I don't think that's the issue. Perhaps your
drive is attempting to
negotiate disconnect/reconnect behaviour and the VLC isn't telling it not
to? What happens with the drive goes off line, just it just hang or is
there and error message to that effect? On my M76 I took off the delayed
spin-up jumper to insure that the drive was there when probed but I don't
think the VLC cares.
Weird idea, but: are the fans in the vlc working ? probably the drives are
getting hot (small enclosure !!) and shut down ?
The other thing of course is to be sure that
you're not running one of the
drives as ID 6, and perhaps consider moving the disk to a different ID (I
don't know if disconnect/recconect might "assume" the computer is 7 but
you
never know.)
Probably wouldn't even start on ID 6.
I'm
starting to think the only way I'll get this system up is to boot it
into my cluster as a diskless client! Grrr!
Should work :-) BTW, I'm
1.3 on my firmware.
If I figure out how to change it I'll make it available for other VLC