thanks, all. the drive seems to be dead; it gets deconfigured at boot
with
ldev 9 ... device configuration error: -11
Tracy Pierce, GGBHTD
and superglue may work on that switch cover
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kim Borgman
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 6:59 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: strange power outage
>
> When we first got our N-box 3/4 years ago, it 'died' the
> first week. Turns
> out we had bad battery backup system that was causing it to
> shut down. Very
> similar to a 'power outage'.
>
> Just one persons past experience....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Mitchell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:44 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] strange power outage
>
> Any chance LDEV 9 was added on the fly (SYSGEN/DOIONOW) some
> while back and
> isn't in the CONFIG file you booted from?
>
> Glenn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Tracy Pierce
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 6:07 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] strange power outage
>
> Last Tuesday while I was out of the office, it was reported
> that one of my
> users couldn't log on. I VPN'd in, and discovered my HP3000 957
> unavailable, spoke with pipple onsite who said "no lights" on
> the box at
> all. No other devices in the room indicated failure of line
> power, and
> everything's on UPS, the 957 doubly so, so all I could figure was that
> somebody must have um accidentally um hit the power switch.
> I walked my
> onsite person thru a power-up sequence (it's not completely
> automatic alas),
> and all seemed to go well. But that night's backup failed,
> saying unknown
> device...
> :FILE BUPDEV;DEV=!BUPDEV
> FILE BUPDEV;DEV=9
> ^
> Unknown logical device. (CIERR 345)
> REMAINDER OF JOB FLUSHED.
> CPU sec. = 1. elapsed min. = 1. WED, DEC 7, 2005, 1:00 AM.
> The next day it was reported to me that the tape drive we
> know as ldev 9
> wouldn't eject its tape, and that the CleanMe! light was on. Yep, no
> response to the drive's button, so I switched to using ldev7,
> pending...
>
> I'm planning to bounce the system this evening to recover, so
> I went to take
> a look into what needs doing, and sure enough right there on
> the console is
> a legit session logon on ldev 9 from this morning.
>
> So a couple questions:
>
> 1) could a dying tape drive bring the system down?
>
> 2) the drive obviously has power, but it's unrecognized by the system.
> How do I get it back?
> Here's some info from sysgen/io which looks to me like it
> knows there's
> supposed to be a DEVTYPE: TAPE there...
> io> ld
> LDEV: 1 DEVNAME: OUTDEV: 0 MODE:
>
> ID: HPC3010M1 RSIZE: 128 DEVTYPE:
> DISC
> PATH: 52.6.0 MPETYPE: 4
> MPESUBTYPE:
> 2
> CLASS: DISC SPOOL
>
>
>
> LDEV: 2 DEVNAME: OUTDEV: 0 MODE:
>
> ID: HPC3010M1 RSIZE: 128 DEVTYPE:
> DISC
> PATH: 52.5.0 MPETYPE: 4
> MPESUBTYPE:
> 2
> CLASS: DISC SPOOL
>
>
>
> LDEV: 3 DEVNAME: OUTDEV: 0 MODE:
>
> ID: ST19171N RSIZE: 128 DEVTYPE:
> DISC
> PATH: 52.4.0 MPETYPE: 4
> MPESUBTYPE:
> 2
> CLASS: DISC SPOOL
>
>
>
> LDEV: 5 DEVNAME: OUTDEV: 0 MODE:
>
> ID: ST15150N RSIZE: 128 DEVTYPE:
> DISC
> PATH: 52.3.0 MPETYPE: 4
> MPESUBTYPE:
> 2
> CLASS: DISC SPOOL
>
>
>
> LDEV: 7 DEVNAME: OUTDEV: 0 MODE:
>
> ID: HPC1533A RSIZE: 128 DEVTYPE:
> TAPE
> PATH: 52.0.0 MPETYPE: 24
> MPESUBTYPE:
> 7
> CLASS: TAPE DAT DAT7 DDUMP TAPE1
>
>
>
> LDEV: 8 DEVNAME: OUTDEV: 0 MODE:
>
> ID: HP7980S RSIZE: 128 DEVTYPE:
> TAPE
> PATH: 16.2.0 MPETYPE: 24
> MPESUBTYPE:
> 5
> CLASS: TAPE
>
>
>
> LDEV: 9 DEVNAME: OUTDEV: 0 MODE:
>
> ID: HPC1533A RSIZE: 128 DEVTYPE:
> TAPE
> PATH: 52.1.0 MPETYPE: 24
> MPESUBTYPE:
> 7
> CLASS: TAPE DAT DAT9
>
>
>
> LDEV: 10 DEVNAME: OUTDEV: LP MODE: JA
>
> ID: HPC1502A RSIZE: 128 DEVTYPE:
> TAPE
> PATH: 52.9.0 MPETYPE: 24
> MPESUBTYPE:
> 7
> CLASS: JOBTAPE
>
>
>
> LDEV: 11 DEVNAME: OUTDEV: 0 MODE:
> OS
> ID: HP2566B RSIZE: 66
> DEVTYPE: LP
>
> PATH: 8.0.5 MPETYPE: 32
> MPESUBTYPE:
> 9
> CLASS: LP
>
>
>
> LDEV: 12 DEVNAME: OUTDEV: 0 MODE:
>
> ID: DLT4000 RSIZE: 128 DEVTYPE:
> TAPE
> PATH: 16.1.0 MPETYPE: 24
> MPESUBTYPE:
> 8
> CLASS: DLT
>
>
>
> LDEV: 20 DEVNAME: OUTDEV: 20
> MODE: JAID
>
> ID: HPC1001G RSIZE: 40 DEVTYPE:
> TERM
> PATH: 56.0 MPETYPE: 16
> MPESUBTYPE:
> 0
> CLASS: CONSOLE
>
>
>
> LDEV: 21 DEVNAME: OUTDEV: 21
> MODE: JAID
>
> ID: HPC1001G RSIZE: 40 DEVTYPE:
> TERM
> PATH: 56.1 MPETYPE: 16
> MPESUBTYPE:
> 0
> CLASS: TERM MODEM
>
>
>
> LDEV: 100/105 NMMGR
>
> LDEV: 900 NMMGR
>
> io>
>
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