BA213, uVAX 3900, and KQSFA questions - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Jul 1999

...
 Then wide open space. :-) [meta question, presumably
DEC had fill plates
for the empty slots?] 
If you mean the cover plates for the BA213, and not slot fillers, yes...

...
 When I boot the cpu does all of its diagnostics but it
doesn't "see" the
KFQSA. One of the drives blinks fault the other rattles around a bit and
then blinks ready.  
In my experience, the drives are really flakey... I've got a couple
which have been working one week, then after a power-down, they went
fault, never to work again...

...
 	When I type SHOW DEV to the uvax prompt it show the
ethernet and
	tape but NOT the KFQSA. Is that normal if the disks are not
	inited? 
It can happen until such time as the KFQSA haas been set to respond to
addresses... there is a switch setting on the board which has to be set
a certain away to be able to program it with at least one address...
when it responds to one address, then the SET HOST command can be used.

...
 	When I type Megan's command "SET
HOST/MAINT/QSSP/SERVER 0"
	to access the internal controller on the KFQSA I get
 >>SET HOST/MAINT/UQSSP/SERVER 0 		?28
UNK SW 
That's because it is /UQSSP, not /QSSP

but it may not work if the board hasn't been seup yet.

					Megan Gentry
					Former RT-11 Developer

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