You may be able to answer this right off the bat:
Is the SD "bootable" ?
Can it be made LDEV 1, or only a user volume_set ?
Next questions:
You can't have RAID redundancy with one of these things, but you had TWO
of 'em, what then?
Oh and another thing, What drive model name does one use in SYSGEN ?
On 2/4/23 14:40, Craig Lalley wrote:
> Tracy,
>
> It's $99. Power, but more importantly is the sound. Those Jamaica
> boxes aren't exactly quite. The SD though....
>
> Of course the Jamaica box also helps keep the garage heated.
>
> -Craig
>
>
> On Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 10:54:35 AM PST, Tracy Johnson
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> I'll have to check pricing. This is my garage machine in retirement,
> after all.
>
> Something about the wife telling me to not spend "our" money on frivolity.
>
> Maybe I can use the "energy savings" ploy. She pays no mind to the cost
> of running two fully loaded Jamaica boxes.
>
>
> On 2/4/23 11:24, Robert Liesenfeld wrote:
> > Tracy, the Rabbit Hole Computing store is indeed the correct source for
> > SCSI2SD devices. The V5.2 is the version you'd want, they appear to
> have
> > 85 in stock. I have one of these running in my 927LX and it works
> great.
> > The ZuluSCSI is new, I don't know if it works or not. The RaSCSI/PiSCSI
> > does *not* work, the BlueSCSI might but I haven't tried that one either.
> >
> > You could set up multiple emulated disks on the SCSI2SD but as
> they'd all
> > be written to the same SD card, you wouldn't gain any RAID-like
> redundancy
> > from this; however, you could easily remove the SD card (after powering
> > down of course) and back up its contents to perform full system backups
> > whenever desired.
> >
> > If you decide to pick up a SCSI2SD I can show you what settings I've
> used
> > successfully.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 7:50 AM Craig Lalley <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> My memory is fading.
> >> Can you look for IO errors in the system log?
> >> LOGTOOL?
> >> Also, wasn’t there a way in cstm to get IO errors?
> >> -Craig
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad
> >>
> >>
> >> On Saturday, February 4, 2023, 7:33 am, Terry Simpkins <
> >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks to those so quick to react (why aren't you watching Saturday
> >> morning cartoons?? 😉)
> >>
> >> FSCHECK reported only 2 little directory warnings.
> >> One data group is on the user volume but not the system volume, and
> >> another data group is "not active on user volume".
> >> Both of these are MANMAN database groups that are never used. But I'll
> >> get those 'problems' corrected.
> >>
> >> With no other errors/problems reported, I guess I'll just wait and
> see if
> >> another incident occurs.
> >>
> >> Terry W Simpkins
> >> Yorktown, VA 23693
> >> IBA # 8778 SS1000, SS2000, BBG, 50CC
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion<[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of
> >> Craig Lalley
> >> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2023 9:58 AM
> >> To:[log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] System abort
> >>
> >> FSCHECK.MPEXL.TELESUP
> >> ca all
> >> -Craig
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad
> >>
> >>
> >> On Saturday, February 4, 2023, 6:52 am, Terry Simpkins <
> >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> My little 928 had a system failure this morning. My initial
> suspicion is
> >> that LDEV #2 has a problem.
> >> I issued an ‘abortjob’ command from a ‘non-console’ session, and
> got these
> >> messages before the command completed successfully:
> >>
> >>
> >> Bad SYSTEM LOGICAL Sector number 0x226A80b on ldev 2
> (io_status=FFD40071)
> >> Filename of badfile:/VESOFT/CMD22/SHOWSCH8 Bad SYSTEM LOGICAL Sector
> >> number 0x226A80b on ldev 2 (io_status=FFD40071) Filename of bad
> >> file:/VESOFT/CMD22/SHOWSCH8 Bad SYSTEM LOGICAL Sector number
> 0x226A80ÿ on
> >> ldev 2 (io_status=FFD40071) Filename of badfile:/VESOFT/CMD22/SHOWSCH8
> >> Bad SYSTEM LOGICAL Sector number 0x226A80ÿ on ldev 2
> (io_status=FFD40071)
> >> Filename of badfile:/VESOFT/CMD22/SHOWSCH8 Bad SYSTEM LOGICAL Sector
> >> number 0x226A80ÿ on ldev 2 (io_status=FFD40071) Filename of bad
> >> file:/VESOFT/CMD22/SHOWSCH8
> >>
> >> (There were more of these messages but I didn’t copy everything)
> >>
> >> I walked over to the other room where the console is located and
> found the
> >> following displayed:
> >>
> >> System Abort 1740 from subsystem 107
> >> Secondary Status: INFO = -44 Subsys = 113 System Halt 7, $06CC
> >>
> >> Then autorestart kicked in and the system performed a ‘Start
> NoRecovery’,
> >> with no reported errors.
> >> I ran “LISTF” on the file listed above (SHOWSCH8.CMD22.VESOFT)
> without a
> >> problem.
> >> And then “printed” the file to the screen without generating another
> >> system halt. If the drive was failing, I thought that would create
> another
> >> system failure.
> >>
> >> Any ideas/suggestions?
> >>
> >> Terry W Simpkins
> >> Yorktown, VA 23693
> >> IBA # 8778 SS1000, SS2000, BBG, 50CC
> >>
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