Hi Folks,
I've gotten a few responses to my question about the problems I had with
my RZ28 disk drive from the following:
gcjenkins_at_escocorp.com
cbrooks_at_nature.berkeley.edu
Jeff.Beck_at_orcas.iasl.ca.boeing.com
dbowman_at_sph.jhu.edu
jason_at_dstc.edu.au
Many thanks for their inputs. Most said that they've had no problems.
I've installed another drive into the chassis on Friday, restored onto
it the contents of the previous drive. However, over the weekend, I got
a few more hits of SCSI resets, and the uerf output shows lots of:
uerf version 4.2-011 (122)
********************************* ENTRY 1. *********************************
----- EVENT INFORMATION -----
EVENT CLASS ERROR EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE 199. CAM SCSI
SEQUENCE NUMBER 226.
OPERATING SYSTEM DEC OSF/1
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Sat Apr 13 10:16:06 1996
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM gt40
SYSTEM ID x0006000D CPU TYPE: DEC 7000
SYSTYPE x00000000
----- UNIT INFORMATION -----
CLASS x0030
SUBSYSTEM x0000 DISK
BUS # x0000
----- CAM STRING -----
ROUTINE NAME psiop_hardintr
----- CAM STRING -----
Bus reset detected
----- UNSUPPORTED ENTRY -----
CAM ENTRY x00000430
********************************* ENTRY 2. *********************************
----- EVENT INFORMATION -----
EVENT CLASS ERROR EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE 199. CAM SCSI
SEQUENCE NUMBER 225.
OPERATING SYSTEM DEC OSF/1
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Sat Apr 13 10:15:52 1996
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM gt40
SYSTEM ID x0006000D CPU TYPE: DEC 7000
SYSTYPE x00000000
----- UNIT INFORMATION -----
CLASS x0022 DEC SIM
SUBSYSTEM x0000 DISK
BUS # x0000
x0000 LUN x0
TARGET x0
----- CAM STRING -----
ROUTINE NAME ss_perform_timeout
----- CAM STRING -----
Reached max abort count,
scheduled bus
_reset
----- UNSUPPORTED ENTRY -----
CAM ENTRY x0000040E SIM_WS
and so on. Note that I somehow lost a year in my system clock while I
was doing this, and didn't discover it until this morning. (The date
"Saturday, April 13, 1996" was actully today.)
These are the same messages I got with the RZ28. The new drive is an
IBM i0664, also 2GB, though a little smaller than the RZ28. I can't
believe that a new drive could be having the same problems as the old.
Could I be having problems with the host SCSI controller? This is the
one integrated to the CPU board. If it is going bad, I'm not sure why
it's just hitting the internal drive; I got 4 other external drives on
this system in a cabinet that has lots of forced air cooling, and
they've been running fine.
Should I be calling DEC Field service to replace my integrated SCSI
controller or mother board?
thanks in advance for any responses.
eyc
Received on Mon Apr 14 1997 - 20:07:10 NZST