Re: Seagate ST31051N on MicroVAX 3100

Hi all. I retried in this days the whole procedure, te be sure that
the disk itself is good and working.
I installed in a win2000 machine, formatted it and used a little: no
problem.
I double checked with SCU the ARRE and ARWE, they are disabled.
I re-installed in the VAX4000-100A, reinited with test E1: no problem
so far.
Booted VMS 5.5, it's DKA100 (correctly seen by the firmware also in
size).
Tried to INIT it with VMS: drive fault.
On ANALYZE /ERROR /INCLUDE=DKA100 /SINCE=TODAY (copied by hand from
console)

ERROR TYPE 06 INVALID MODE SENSE DATA
MEDIUM TYPE 00 - DEFAULT MEDIUM TYPE
FLAGS 10 - WRITE ENABLED
BLOCK DESC 1. -
_DEFAULT DENSITY OF MEDIUM
_NUMBER OF BLOCK = 0.
_BLOCK LENGHT = 512.
PAGE DESC 1. - PAGE CODE = 01
ERROR RECOVERY PARAMETERS
_RETRY_CNT = 17.
_CORRECTION SPAN = 48.
_HEAD OFFSET CNT = 0.
_DATA STROBE OFFSET CNT =0.
_RECOVERY TIME LIMIT = 9. MSEC
PAGE DESC 2. - PAGE CODE = 02
DISCONNECT/RECONNECT CONTROL PARAMS
_BUFFER FULL RATIO = 128.
_BUFFER EMPTY RATIO = 128.
_BUS INACTIVITY LIMIT = 1000. USEC
_DISCONNECT TIME LIMIT = 0. USEC
_CONNECT TIME LIMIT = 0. USEC
PAGE DESC 3. - PAGE CODE = 03
DIRECT ACCESS DEVICE FORMAT PARAMS
_4. TRACK/ZONE
_10. ALTERNATE SECTORS/ZONE
_0. ALTERNATE TRACKS/ZONE
_8. ALTERNATE TRACKS/VOL
_126. SECTORS/TRACK
_512. DATA BYTES/PHYS SECTOR
_1. INTERLEAVE
_TRACK SKEW FACTOR = 36.
_CYLINDER SKEW FACTOR = 48.
_HARD SECTOR
PAGE DESC 4. - PAGE CODE = 04
RIGID DISK DRIVE GEOMETRY PARAMS
_NUMBER OF CYLINDERS =4177.
_NUMBER OF HEADS = 4.
_START CYL WRITE PRECOMP = 0.
_START CYL REDUCE WRITE CURR = 0.
_DRIVE STEP RATE = 0.
_LANDING ZONE CYL = 0.
PAGE DESC 5. - PAGE CODE = 07
RESERVED
PAGE DESC 6. - PAGE CODE 08
RESERVED
PAGE DESC 7. - PAGE CODE 0A
RESERVED
PAGE DESC 8. - PAGE CODE 00
VENDOR UNIQUE PAGE CODE
UCB$B_ERTCNT 04 - 4. RETRIES REMAINING
UCB$B_ERTMAX 00 - 0. RETRIES ALLOWABLE
ORB$L_OWNER 00000000 - OWNER UIC [000,000]
UCB$L_CHAR 1CC54008 - DIRECTORY STRUCTURED, FILE ORIENTED, SHAREABLE,
AVAILABLE, ERROR LOGGING, ALLOCATED, CAPABLE OF INPUT, CAPABLE OF
OUTPUT, RANDOM ACCESS
UCB$W_STS 0000
USB$L_OPCNT 00000000 - 0. QIO'S THIS UNIT
UCB$W_ERRCNT 0001 - 1. ERROR THIS UNIT
IRP$W_BCNT 0000 - TRANSFER SIZE 0. BYTE(S)
IRP$W_BOFF 0000 - TRANSFER PAGE ALIGNED
IRP$L_PID 00010013 - REQUESTOR "PID"
IRP$Q_IOSB 00000001 00BD0000 - IOSB 0. BYTES(S) TRANSFERRED

Any idea?










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