micropolis disk on AXP 200 4/166

From: \ <stroili_at_padova.infn.it>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 95 12:33:54 +0200

I have troubles with a micropolis disk (MICROP 3243-19MZ FastSCSI 2, 4.35 GB)
mounted on an AXP 200 4/166 with OSF 3.2 with SCSI id #1. Apparently it is seen
without problems, but sometimes the machine hangs for a few minutes (about 5)
giving error messages regarding disk #0 (that is the original DEC RZ26L internal
drive, where the operating system resides).
The error messages are of the following kind:


# uerf -R | more
                                                  uerf version 4.2-011 (122)


********************************* ENTRY 1. *********************************

----- EVENT INFORMATION -----

EVENT CLASS ERROR EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE 199. CAM SCSI
SEQUENCE NUMBER 100.
OPERATING SYSTEM DEC OSF/1
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Mon Jul 10 09:38:56 1995
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM zaxpd1
SYSTEM ID x0002000D CPU TYPE: DEC 7000
SYSTYPE x00000000

----- UNIT INFORMATION -----

CLASS x0022 DEC SIM
SUBSYSTEM x0000 DISK
BUS # x0000
                              x0000 LUN x0
                                        TARGET x0

********************************* ENTRY 2. *********************************

----- EVENT INFORMATION -----

EVENT CLASS ERROR EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE 199. CAM SCSI
SEQUENCE NUMBER 99.
OPERATING SYSTEM DEC OSF/1
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Mon Jul 10 09:38:56 1995
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM zaxpd1
SYSTEM ID x0002000D CPU TYPE: DEC 7000
SYSTYPE x00000000

----- UNIT INFORMATION -----

CLASS x0022 DEC SIM
SUBSYSTEM x0000 DISK
BUS # x0000
                              x0000 LUN x0
                                        TARGET x0

********************************* ENTRY 3. *********************************

----- EVENT INFORMATION -----

EVENT CLASS ERROR EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE 199. CAM SCSI
SEQUENCE NUMBER 98.
OPERATING SYSTEM DEC OSF/1
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Mon Jul 10 09:38:56 1995
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM zaxpd1
SYSTEM ID x0002000D CPU TYPE: DEC 7000
SYSTYPE x00000000

----- UNIT INFORMATION -----

CLASS x0022 DEC SIM
SUBSYSTEM x0000 DISK
BUS # x0000
                              x0000 LUN x0
                                        TARGET x0

********************************* ENTRY 4. *********************************

----- EVENT INFORMATION -----

EVENT CLASS ERROR EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE 199. CAM SCSI
SEQUENCE NUMBER 97.
OPERATING SYSTEM DEC OSF/1
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Mon Jul 10 09:38:56 1995
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM zaxpd1
SYSTEM ID x0002000D CPU TYPE: DEC 7000
SYSTYPE x00000000

----- UNIT INFORMATION -----

CLASS x0022 DEC SIM
SUBSYSTEM x0000 DISK
BUS # x0000
                              x0000 LUN x0
                                        TARGET x0


I tried also to:

1) take away the external SCSI terminator -> the machine hangs at
        boot giving error on disk #0
2) replacing the external SCSI terminator (the former one was not DIGITAL, the
        new one DIGITAL) -> the machine hangs at
        boot giving error on disk #0
3) remove micropolis disk -> the machine works fine

Is this a problem of my (brand new) disk or of the SCSI interface (with this
kind of disks I had some problems on a 3000/300, but I was said that these
problems are really a problem of the machine).

Thank ypu in advance


                                R. Stroili
Received on Wed Jul 12 1995 - 12:42:39 NZST

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