Ernie:

Are all of your SCSI connections tight with the chain properly terminated?
Do you have any "foreign" devices on the chain?  At a previous job, I had a
3rd party 8mm tape drive on the same SCSI channel as was my 4mm boot tape
drive and the 4mm tape would not boot until I removed the 8mm drive from
the channel.  Also, did you check the SCSI address of LDEV 7 to be sure
that it's the same as you configured in SYSGEN?

Hope this helps...Good luck!!

Tom Madigan
Malvern, PA

At 12:00 PM 3/9/00 -0800, Newton, Ernie wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I tried to install a VPLUS patch last Saturday but wasn't able to boot the
>system from ldev7.  HPRC suggested that our firmware probably doesn't
>support a 90 meter tape and to use a 60 meter.  I did, with the same result.
>The system says it's booting then says "Entry_test status = 0".  After a few
>moments the system then says, "Failed to initialize, Entry_init Status =
>-4".
>
>HPRC wants us to try to boot from ldev 8 to see if that works, but at this
>point we don't really want to kick our users off in order to try something
>that might also fail.
>
>HP thinks our tape drive is at fault, but it has been doing successful
>backups.  Ldev 7 is a DDS 2.
>A small hint is that when trying to boot, the light on the DAT drive does
>NOT blink.  It stays a solid green.
>(and yes, I've cleaned and re-cleaned the drive).
>
>All suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
>Ernie Newton
>Computer Systems Specialist
>Yolo County Office of Education
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