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The Question is: Hi- I have an 433au running 7.1-H2 and two IBM 18GB internal drives. The show dev at the prom level shows the devices at the set address. The internal cable has a terminator and drives are not terminated. The system boot without any problems. When I issue "show dev d", the two IBMs are "offline"...helps! thanks, -John The Answer is : Please contact the folks that support the particular IBM drive for assistance. If you do not have a vendor that you can contact, please contact your local Compaq Services (formerly Digital Services) office for assistance. SCSI is not a standardized interface, rather, it is a collection of optionally-implemented standardized features. Each SCSI host contains non-trivial SCSI driver software, and each SCSI device contains equally non-trivial firmware -- taken together with the mechanical and electronic compoents, this software and firmware will communicate storage-related requests using the SCSI protocol. Hosts and devices have various optionally-implemented features, and both also implement vendor-specific protocol extensions for operations outside those explicitly specified in the SCSI protocol. Integration and testing work is mandatory with each new SCSI device, and there can be no certainty that any particular SCSI device will operate as expected in any particular configuration without first performing this work. There are OpenVMS ECO kits in the area of SCSI support that may or may not be applicable to this particular SCSI drive. These kits are available at the http://www.service.digital.com/ website.
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