The list is great! George W. Baltz <gwb_at_umd5.umd.edu> replied within
minutes that "SHO DEV" might shed some light. It did. Since the boot
disk (SHO BOOTDEF_DEV) didn't appear, it seems obvious where the problem
lies ..
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Bryan Hodgson wrote:
>
> No luck searching the archives on this one.
>
> We've got a 3000/900 which failed to re-boot yesterday. The machine
> successfully completes the *INIT* checks, and then halts with the
> following on the console:
>
> AUDIT BOOT STARTS
> T_ERR_SCSI - DEVICE_NOT_PRESENT
> 84 FAIL
> >>>
>
> But TEST SCSI returns an OKAY.
>
> Okay, I'm perplexed. How do I narrow down the range of the problem?
> Any suggestions? Is this as simple as a bad disk?
>
> The machine is ( uh ... was ) actually a VMS box, but I've gotten no
> responses from VMS-L, and thought that since this is a hardware issue, I
> might find some useful information here.
>
> TIA. Will summarize.
>
Received on Wed Apr 29 1998 - 15:45:31 NZST