I recently posted a question to this list. To recap the problem..
Sometimes my system will boot fine, but usually it will have a couple
SCSI errors at power-up. Usually when there are SCSI errors, it's
impossible to boot the machine. We have been in this configuration for almost
a year and the power-up SCSI errors only started recently. All 3
disks are on the internal SCSI bus of a DEC 3000-700.
Eric Z. Ayars pointed out that we might need an active terminator on the
internal SCSI bus. We secured one and the system booted up fine,
and then promptly hung after 5 minutes and the power-up SCSI errors
resumed anew. This is a probabilistic type of error, but the probability
seems to be increasing quickly, and it doesn't seem to be connected
to whether one, two, or three disks are in the machine. (I have seen error
messages and clean boots in all of these configurations).
Any suggestions as to what else might be wrong are helpful. In particular,
two of the three disks are jumpered to spin up only when accessed. Could
this be contributing to the time out? Also, is it possible that
an error on disks at SCSI ID 1 or 2 could lead to errors accessing the
system disk at SCSI ID 0 (which was just newly replaced).
Steve Timm
Received on Mon Aug 25 1997 - 18:52:02 NZST