8 Feb
2003
8 Feb
'03
6:58 a.m.
As I understand it, the drives won't spin up without the panel. I
currently have full
technical documentation for pretty much every DEC hard drive EXCEPT the
RA70.
One of my bosses was a field service engineer for DEC for 15 years, and
the other worked
for 22 years as the senior district representative for New Mexico, West
Texas, Colorado,
Utah, Arizona, and Nevada and was a storage subsystems specialist. They
both agree that
you need the control panel. They also both agree that I'm nuts for
caring.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan Dicks
Sent: Sat 2/8/2003 7:21 AM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: WANTED: RA7x Enclosure/Operator Ctrl. Panel
--- John Willis <jwillis(a)arielusa.com> wrote:
Wanted: RA7x Enclosure/Operator Ctrl. Panel
Are these things common/rare? Absolutely required or are they
just
very nice to have? I have a couple of RA70 drives I got in a
box
with some KDA50s. Was going to put them in my BA123 with a
KA630
processor. Haven't had the chance - still using a pair of
RD54s.
So... has anyone tried to put RA7X drives in a CPU (not disk)
enclosure? If I'm hosed, then I guess I'm in the market for
a drive enclosure, too (unless there's some way to hack up an
old AT-style tower case...)
-ethan
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8 Feb
8 Feb
9:15 a.m.
google and a little rtfm always works;) 5 minutes!
looks like your expert bosses were wrong.
Summary RA7x drives don't need control panel, just proper jumpers.
SDI cables need to be wired to the [U/K]DA50 in odd numbers. eg 1
See pg 3-11 of kda 50 user manual: drives will go offline if unit numbers
are duplicated. ie don't set switches the same on all drives if missing
panel.
-h
from
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/1999/10/22/0011.html
see:
As far as I can see this is hardware. The RA7x drives can either be told
their
unit number by the OPC (the panel on the front) or they can have it
set by switches somewhere.
from
http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/pups/1999-September/000118.html
see:
I wonder, does anyone here know anything about the KDA50? I've solved my
RA72
problem (as it turns out, if there is no control panel connected, the drive
assumes normal operation, i.e., spin up, go on-line, enable port A, no
write
protect, and the unit number between 0 and 7 is set by the switches on the
right side of the drive), but now I have a different problem: I can't get
UNIX
....
Michael Sokolov
from
see:
Page 2-25 of the UDA50 guide lists the LED codes. Basically
a cycling-flashing pattern on both boards means OK. Otherwise
you have a UDA50 problem.
Assuming that's OK, remember that you need an odd number of
SDI cables between controller and disk. Tyically 3 (controller
to bulkhead, bulkhead to other cab bulkhead and finally other
cab bulkhead to disk. Using just one cable should work (I did that
in a MicroVAX III system inside a BA214 cab to go from a KDA50
to an RA7x drive or two.
If all that is OK (and assuming the cables are OK) the next thing
to look at is the RA7x itself. In a MicroVAX cab or in a disk cab,
the OCP (operator control panel) is used to set the disk unit number
and bring it online. In your config I assume that you need to set the
unit number using switches and possibly do something else to persuade
it to come online. I'll go look up the details tomorrow, in the meantime
you can start by checking the above.
Good luck,
Antonio
arcarlini(a)iee.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Willis" <jwillis(a)arielusa.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 3:55 PM
Subject: RE: WANTED: RA7x Enclosure/Operator Ctrl. Panel
As I understand it, the drives won't spin up
without the panel. I
currently have full
technical documentation for pretty much every DEC hard drive EXCEPT the
RA70.
One of my bosses was a field service engineer for DEC for 15 years, and
the other worked
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