SCSI2SD in a DEC 3000/300 - T-ERR-SCSI A

[Bill Degnan]

I was either sacrifice a data drive to make it a backup of the primary or
find a like drive first, get the system stable and then upgrade.  I have a
3000 too here if you want to work together to troubleshoot yours

Bill

On Sun, Sep 26, 2021, 9:46 AM Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> On Sep 26, 2021, at 12:22 AM, Alexander Jacocks via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> > I’ve got a DEC 3000/300 system that has some SCSI drives with aging
> bearings installed. I’d like to be able to start to migrate some of my
> systems, like this, to flash media, of some kind, as even my large
> repository of SCSI disks is starting to dry up.
> >
> > Here is my SRM level info:
> >    DEC 3000 - M300
> > Digital Equipment Corporation
> >     VPP PAL V5.56-80800101/OSF PAL V1.45-80800201 - Built on 30-SEP-1996
> 09:18:31.84
> >
> > As far as I have read, the SCSI2SD v6 2020 should be compatible with
> several varieties of DEC hardware, from the VAXen to the Alphas. However, I
> can’t seem to get anywhere useful with mine. I have the virtual disks
> configured as follows:
> >
> >>>> sh dev
> >
> >  BOOTDEV      ADDR      DEVTYPE    NUMBYTES     RM/FX    WP    DEVNAM
>   REV
> >  -------      ----      -------    --------     -----    --    ------
>   ---
> >  ESA0         08-00-2B-3F-4C-9A , TENBT
> >  DKA100       A/1/0     DISK         9.54GB      FX            RZ40
>    6.0
> >  DKA300       A/3/0     DISK         9.54GB      FX            RZ40
>    6.0
> >  DKA400       A/4/0     RODISK     305.01MB      RM      WP    RRD45
>     6.0
> >
> > All three disks are from the SCSI2SD. I have attempted to make the
> inquiry strings match the originals, as closely as possible. In the SCSI2SD
> utility, I have the following config:
> >
> > General page: all defaults, termination off (I have tried parity, scsi2
> mode, and setting SCSI speed to sync, with no improvement)
> > Device 1: enabled, ID 1, device Hard Drive, start sector 0, sector size
> 512, sector count 18636800, vendor “DEC     ", product “RZ40     “,
> revision “ 6.0”, serial number <random string>
> > Device 2: enabled, ID 3, device Hard Drive, start sector 18636800,
> sector size 512, sector count 18636800, vendor “DEC     ", product “RZ40
>  “, revision “ 6.0”, serial number <random string + 1>
> > Device 3: enabled, ID 4, device CDROM, start sector 37273600, sector
> size 2048, sector count 148933, vendor “DEC     ", product “RRD45    “,
> revision “ 6.0”, serial number <random string + 2>
> >
> > I’ve also tried booting from a virtual CDROM, only, with no luck there,
> either. In all cases, I get the following from SRM:
> >
> >>>> test scsi
> > T-STS-SCSI A - Data Trans test
> > ? T-ERR-SCSI A - Data Trans test - nondma/sync inq size miscompare
> > T-ERR-SCSI A - id = 1 lun = 0
> >
> > ? T-ERR-SCSI A - Data Trans test - nondma/sync inq size miscompare
> > T-ERR-SCSI A - id = 3 lun = 0
> >
> > ? T-ERR-SCSI A - Data Trans test - nondma/sync inq size miscompare
> > T-ERR-SCSI A - id = 4 lun = 0
> > ?? 002      SCSI 0x0008
> >
> >
> >  84 FAIL
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this? Has anyone tried a
> v6 SCSI2SD in a DEC 3000?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > - Alex
>
> I picked up a couple v6 boards for my AlphaStation 200 4/233, but haven’t
> tried to use them yet.
>
> Are you using the onboard SCSI, or a SCSI board?  I’m ‘going to assume
> you’ve tried a different cable, and to get it working from actual physical
> drives?  Have you tried turning the termination on, on the board?  Is your
> SCSI Bus Terminated?
>
> You actually have RZ40’s in the system?  I’m asking as I’m not actually
> familiar with that drive type, at least it’s not one I remember off the top
> fo my head.  I usually use RZ29’s.  On my v5.2 board on my VAXstation
> 4000/90 I think I went with basic 8GB drives, without a vendor string or
> product string.
>
>
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