Hi Jim--

I've got an old 948 faceplate on my desk from the first 3000 I managed.
(yes, I know, lots of people can top that...)

My apologies if this is obvious and you've already checked, but are you
certain that the cabling to the external ldev3 drive is correct? Since
sysgen has ldev3 as 4.5.2 and ldev4 as 4.1.2, if they were inadvertently
cabled to the same bus (HPIB?) then I would expect the symptoms you are
seeing. If so, Moving ldev3 to the correct physical connection should fix
it.

--Jon

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000 14:54:31 -0500, Jim Phillips
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I know, I know, this system is really old!
>
>But, I'm trying to resurrect this system for some testing.  According to
the
>SYSGEN>IO>LDEV it has six disk drives on it, as per this map:
>
>Ldev 1 = 4.1.0 (2203)
>Ldev 2 = 4.1.1 (2203)
>Ldev 3 = 4.5.2 (2203)
>Ldev 4 = 4.1.2 (2203)
>Ldev 5 = 4.1.4 (7937)
>Ldev 11 = 4.1.5 (7937)
>
>After some trial and error, I have found that Ldev's 1, 2, and 4 are
>internal to the SPU, Ldev 3 is in a box by itself, as are the two 7937's.
>
>My problem is this:  I can get all the drives to spin up "clean and green",
>but with all drives powered up, Ldev's 3 and 4 refuse to mount.  When the
>system gets to the "System I/O Configuration" and "pings" the drives, Ldev
3
>and 4 start blinking simultaneously and then I get the "configured but not
>available" message for these drives.  If I power off Ldev 3 (in the
external
>enclosure), then Ldev 4 will mount successfully (during a reboot).
>
>This looks like a configuration problem, but I am lost.  Any ideas?  It is
>not absolutely required that I salvage this drive, but it would be nice.
>
>Jim Phillips                           Information Systems Manager
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