This can happen if there is any activity on the tape drive during the START
process.

Try the START NORECOVERY again and make sure you are not in the process of
loading a tape in the dds drive.


At 09:48 AM 2000-07-22 +0400, Pandey, Pushkar TCS1C wrote:
>Gents,
>
>We replaced a CPU card on 918. This was pre-configured for HP-UX. We changed
>it to MPE through ss-config and did a fresh installation on the system (SLT
>tape of MPE/iX 5.5)
>
>The H/W config is :
>
>Disk : 56/52.6.0
>DDS Tape Drive : 56/52.0.0
>CD-ROM Drive    : 56/52.2.0
>
>The installation was successful from SLT,  but after rebooting the LDEVs
>configured were only LDEV 1 and LDEV 20.
>I could not get LDEV 7 and LDEV 6, even though they appear in sysgen (lp and
>ld commands).
>
>While booting I get the error message " Higher level component not
>configured"
>
>Also we get "Pascal error -650" when system comes up.
>
>I can logon as manager.sys, but can not get LDEV 6 and LDEV 7 and LDEV 10
>going
>
>Please share your valid and useful experiences on this problem.
>
>Thanks & regards
>
>Pushkar Pandey
>System Engineer

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