On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:17 AM, P Gebhardt <p.gebhardt at ymail.com> wrote:
Lately, I?hooked?a M2442AC (which is basically the
M2442A with an extra buffer) to a QT13-type coupler in a?microVAX, in order to save some
tape contents to disk and CD-ROM.
Therefore, I launched the NVRAM-internal diagnostics of the Emulex-controller. The manual
of the controller points out the NVRAM-settings for some types of drives, but not for
drives made by Fujitsu :(
The diagnostic tests, which can be run out of the diagnostics menu, all fail (except for
"BOT/rewind"- and "host memory DMA"-tests) with the same error
description:
** ERROR ** Blank tape read
I hooked my QT13 up to my M2444AC and installed the QT13 in a BA213
with a KA660 and ran the QT13 diagnostics in system console mode. I
had a scratch tape mounted in the M2444AC and all of the diagnostics
completed successfully, which took 20-30 minutes. The captured
console output is listed below.
The QT13 was configured with the following switch settings at power
up. SW-1 was toggled from OFF to ON and back to OFF just prior to the
"ST 80" console command.
SW1-1 OPEN(OFF) away from PCB
SW1-2 CLOSED(ON) near to PCB
SW1-3 CLOSED(ON) near to PCB
SW1-4 CLOSED(ON) near to PCB
SW2-1 OFF
SW2-2 OFF
SW2-3 OFF
SW2-4 OFF
SW2-5 ON
SW2-6 OFF
SW2-7 ON
SW2-8 OFF
KA660-A V4.9, VMB 2.12
1) Dansk
2) Deutsch (Deutschland/?sterreich)
3) Deutsch (Schweiz)
4) English (United Kingdom)
5) English (United States/Canada)
6) Espa?ol
7) Fran?ais (Canada)
8) Fran?ais (France/Belgique)
9) Fran?ais (Suisse)
10) Italiano
11) Nederlands
12) Norsk
13) Portugu?s
14) Suomi
15) Svenska
(1..15): 5
Performing normal system tests.
95..94..93..92..91..90..89..88..87..86..85..84..83..82..81..80..
79..78..77..76..75..74..73..72..71..70..69..68..67..66..65..64..
63..62..61..60..59..58..57..56..55..54..53..52..51..50..49..48..
47..46..45..44..43..42..41..40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..
31..30..29..28..27..26..25..24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..
15..14..13..12..11..10..09..08..07..06..05..04..03..
Tests completed.
>>SHOW QBUS
Scan of Qbus I/O Space
-20001468 (772150) = 0000 RQDX3/KDA50/RRD50/RQC25/KFQSA-DISK
-2000146A (772152) = 0B20
-20001940 (774500) = 0000 TQK50/TQK70/TU81E/RV20/KFQSA-TAPE
-20001942 (774502) = 8051
-20001F40 (777500) = 0020 IPCR
Scan of Qbus Memory Space
>>D/P/W 20001F40 20
>>D/P/L 20088000 80000000
>>D/P/L 20088004 80000001
>>ST 80
***** ***** EMULEX CORPORATION
* * 3545 Harbor Boulevard
***** * ***** P.O. Box 6725
* * Costa Mesa, CA, 92626
***** ***** (714) 662-5600
E M U L E X
QT13/14 Firmware Revision K
Copyright 1988 EMULEX CORPORATION
All rights reserved
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unit is Offline CSR Address = 174500 oct
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Video Display or Hardcopy Terminal (V/H,def=H) : H
MAIN MENU
=========
A - All tests
R - Retry limit value
N - NOVRAM Maintenance
T - Test selection Menu
S - Display Switch settings
Q - Quick test on positioning and erase
X - Exit Maintenance mode after resetting switches
CTRL/C - Returns you to the previous level
CTRL/U - Deletes current input if no <CR> entered
Select Function (def=A) : S
Functions selected by indicated switch settings
-----------------------------------------------
Switch 1
Off On
_______
| |
| [ ] | - 1 --- QT13/14 Tape coupler reset switch, Unreadable Hardware switch
| [ *] | - 2 --- Diagnostic mode
| [ *] | - 3 --- Host console communications
| [ *] | - 4 --- uVAX host
| |
-------
Functions selected by indicated switch settings
-----------------------------------------------
Switch 2
Off On
_______
| |
| [* ] | - 1 -|
| [* ] | - 2 -|- Address = 174500 oct
| [* ] | - 3 -|
| [* ] | - 4 --- TMSCP
| [ *] | - 5 --- Enable 22 bit addressing
| [ ] | - 6 --- WDS Trailing edge select, Unreadable Hardware switch
| [ ] | - 7 --- WDS Leading edge select, Unreadable Hardware switch
| [ ] | - 8 --- Not used, Unreadable Hardware switch
| |
-------
MAIN MENU
=========
A - All tests
R - Retry limit value
N - NOVRAM Maintenance
T - Test selection Menu
S - Display Switch settings
Q - Quick test on positioning and erase
X - Exit Maintenance mode after resetting switches
CTRL/C - Returns you to the previous level
CTRL/U - Deletes current input if no <CR> entered
Select Function (def=A) : N
Drive type, 0=Start-Stop, 1=Streamer (0-1,def=1 dec) :
On the fly commands (Y/N,def=Y) :
Enable data busy timeout delay (Y/N,def=Y) :
Remote density (Y/N,def=Y) :
CDC tape drive (Y/N,def=Y) :
Use IDEN line to select remote density (Y/N,def=N) :
IDEN line true selects high density (Y/N,def=N) :
Adaptive DMA (Y/N,def=Y) :
Blank Tape Timeout value, in seconds (1-60,def=5 dec) :
Max retry count for tape errors (0-10,def=8 dec) :
uSec Delay between DMA bursts (2/4,def=4) :
Enable write data prefill (Y/N,def=N) :
Adaptive DMA threshold (1-7,def=4 dec) :
Tape Drive Speed thousands of bytes/second (0-65535,def=200 dec) :
Support 800 BPI Density (Y/N,def=N) :
Support 1600 BPI Density (Y/N,def=Y) :
Support 6250 BPI Density (Y/N,def=Y) :
Modify ? (Y/N,def=N) :
MAIN MENU
=========
A - All tests
R - Retry limit value
N - NOVRAM Maintenance
T - Test selection Menu
S - Display Switch settings
Q - Quick test on positioning and erase
X - Exit Maintenance mode after resetting switches
CTRL/C - Returns you to the previous level
CTRL/U - Deletes current input if no <CR> entered
Select Function (def=A) : A
Ensure tape loaded and at BOT
Press <CR> to continue...[0K
* WARNING *, Use scratch tape only, data on tape will be lost
Are you sure ? (Y/N,def=N) : Y
Enter number of loops to execute (0-255,def=1 dec) : 1
Retry limit of 10
--> Start of pass 1
BOT/Rewind test
Write/Read test
File mark test
Space forward/reverse test
Positioning test
Erase test
Host memory DMA test
--> End of pass 1
Executing pass 1
Test Summary:
Total # of errors = 0 (0 Hard, 0 Soft, 0 Device, 0 DMA)