Re: DSSI problem

From: Homer Simpson (hsimpson_at_burnsenergy.com)
Date: 07/29/03


Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:46:45 -0400

Vacuum the whole thing out, clean contacts on all drives connected to the
dssi cable. Reseat the cable on all drives about 3 times. It will be good
for another 10 years.

"Thierry Dussuet" <thierry@squeeeez.no-ip.com> wrote in message
news:slrnbia1jk.gh.thierry@VENUS.Family...
> Hello!
> I have a VAX 4000/300 here with 3 RF72 disks in it, as well as a TK70 tape
> drive. Everything went well until someday I realised it was quite dusty,
so I
> took one drive out to see if it was really that dusty - but it wasn't, so
I put
> it back in. And now it doesn't see the disks anymore! All vanished,
although
> the disks themselves have the green light on, and I hear them from time to
> time. The startup tests show no errors, either, and trying to boot from
the
> system disk does not work.
>
> >>>sh dev
> DSSI Bus 0 Node 6 (*)
>
> DSSI Bus 1 Node 7 (*)
>
> UQSSP Tape Controller 0 (774500)
> -MUA0 (TK70)
>
> Ethernet Adapter
> -EZA0 (08-00-2B-16-E7-33)
> >>>
>
> They were on Bus 0. Does anybody have a hint? Something that I could
have
> done wrong while putting the disk back in?
>
> Thierry



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