I have an external HP SureStore DAT24, which I often have set to SCSI
address 0 on a 918 without any problems at all. Even the same HP address of
56/52.0.0. Of course there should not be another SCSI device at the same
SCSI address on the same SCSI chain.

I have run into situations where LLIO errors will result upon system bootup
if there is tape loading activity occurring during the bootup process.

I have never seen the situation you describe with the system powering off.

I do know that SCSI address 7 will not work (I've tried it) but 0 works
fine for me and has for a long time.


At 08:34 AM 1999-12-29 -0700, Keven Miller wrote:
>Yesterday I replaced a DDS1 with an HP SureStore DAT24 (or DDS3).
>The DDS1 was apparently on SCSI address 0, path was 56/52.0.0 on a 918.
>The DAT24 came with default SCSI address of 3. I changed jumpers to make it
>0
>(Noting the warning that address 0 and 7 should not be used).
>
>As the 918 got to the Entering system configuration boot part, it powered
>off.
>
>So I changed the SCSI address to 1, and then 918 booted successfully, with
>dev 7 not available.
>In SYSGEN, changed path for 7 to 56/52.1.0, and device ID. Rebooted -- also
>changing ALT-BOOT Path
>to 56/52.1.0, and all seems fine now.
>
>I guess the new devices won't let you use SCSI 0.
>
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