Thanks to the wonderful hardware techie Ryan Melander at ICS for helping me
through this self inflicted problem (blushing excessively)........
As some of you may or may not remember from one of my previous posts
regarding my attempts at trying to install an extra disc drive (ST19171N) and
failing the task miserably, I had inadvertently and unknowingly caused myself a lot
of grief that just happened to rear its ugly head this past Sunday morning.
Looking at my box's config via ODE/MAPPER/RUN I noticed Path 52.0.0 was
configured as a disc drive.
I knew this had to be a mistake as the alternate boot path (tape drive) has
always been path 52.0.0...
Booted up the system, looked in Sysgen and yes, it tells me that path 52.0.0
is configured as a tape drive.
Ryan mentioned the magic buzz words "short circuit" at which I felt a cloud
of gloom and doom come
over me as I recalled my futile attempts at trying to install the extra disc
drive.
So I powered the box off, removed the disc drive (LDEV5) and had a closer
look at the pins on it. Yep, you guessed it -- two of the pins were actually
touching each other. So I separated the pins, re-installed it, powered up the
box, restarted, and ouila(!) no more error messages -- LDEV5 and tape drive
are recognized once again.....
System is back up and running as normal.....
Thanks Ryan,
Brian Donaldson.
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Saturday evening I did my usual nightly backup which completed successfully.
Changed the system time via :SETCLOCK and then powered down the box for the
night.
Sunday morning I powered up the box, rebooted and saw console errors --
LLIO error on DDS-3 tape drive (LDEV 7) – subsys 243, proc num 9, error
num:
-44, for path 52.0.0
Path 52.4.0 configured, not available (LDEV 5 – ST19171N disc drive)
I have not made any sysgen changes at all.
However, every now and again (not this morning) I have seen an intermittent
boot time error telling me to replace the console/lan card (A1703-60003) as
it is bad.
The DDS-3 tape drive is a refurbished unit installed about 2 to 3 months
ago. I doubt it has gone bad already.
The ST19171N disc drive (LDEV 5) has not given me any problems before. I
doubt both of these units would go bad at exactly the same time.
This morning I removed the console/lan card, dusted it down and reseated it
in the box. This morning, this error did not rear its ugly head. (It didn't
fix anything, the tape drive/disc drive problems are still there)
I am somewhat suspecting the console/lan card intermittent problem is what
is causing the tape drive/disc drive errors. Maybe it is, maybe not. As I
am not a
hardware techie I am just guessing at what the problem might be.
Any help, insight, comments, suggestions would be appreciated.
TIA,
Brian Donaldson.
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