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Article #4472Tahiti-II optical drive trouble
From: bleau
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:11
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:11
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Hi, computeers. How many have used the new Tahiti-II optical disk drive from
MaxOptix? It handles rewritable optical disks, and has two modes: 600MB ISO
and 1GB ZCAV. We bought one for a VAXstation 4000 model 90, and are having
some trouble configuring it properly.
I connected the Tahiti-II drive to the 2nd SCSI bus (via TURBOchannel card) on
the VS4000-90, and when I turned it on (the >>> comsole prompt) and did a SHOW
CONFIG it didn't sho the Tahiti-II drive at all. The SCSI cable is less than
16'. The devices on it are a Fujitsu 1.0GB disk, and a Fujitsu 1.7GB disk.
Any idea why it wouldn't show up?
Just in case length was a problem, though, I moved the Tahiti-II drive to the
1st (main) SCSI bus. Now a SHOW CONFIG displays the device at the correct SCSI
ID. Currently on that SCSI bus I have the internal RZ25 (RZ26?), an RRD40, an
external Exabyte 8500, and the Tahiti-II, in that order. All other devices on
that bus (and the 2nd bus) work fine. There were no self-test errors reported.
When I boot VMS the drive shows up as DKA0:, which is fine. The problem here
is that when I do a MOUNT on it, I get the message "fatal drive error". The
error counts goes to 1, but never increases, even after subsequent failed
attempts to MOUNT. I tried MOUNT /FOREIGN, also.
I examined the error log (there's only one entry for this), and it has an error
type of "invalid mode sense data returned", port status of "normal successful
completion", SCSI command of "mode sense", SCSI status of "good". I've
included the full entry below in case anyone can make any more "sense" out of
it.
I have the internal jumpers onthe Tahiti-II drive set to SCSI ID 0 and report
device type as direct access. The other setting for that jumper is to report
as optical media, which I don't think VMS handles yet; either way it is set
shouldn't affect operation, just device type reported. There is one more
jumper, which is to be inserted for MicroVAX II operation. I've tried it both
ways with the same result.
This drive did work once on a MicroVAX II with a CMD-220 SCSI adapter. After
some initial configuration problems it worked quite nicely. I've run out of
ideas of what to try next; so has MaxOptix, btw. If anyone can shed some light
I'd be grateful. Thanks.
Lawrence Bleau
University of Maryland
bleau@umdsp.umd.edu
301-405-6223
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V A X / V M S SYSTEM ERROR REPORT COMPILED 21-JAN-1993 15:44:00
PAGE 1.
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ERROR SEQUENCE 6632. LOGGED ON: SID 13000202
DATE/TIME 21-JAN-1993 15:43:05.59 SYS_TYPE 04010002
SYSTEM UPTIME: 0 DAYS 01:05:53
SCS NODE: UMDSP VAX/VMS V5.5-2
DEVICE ERROR KA49 CPU Microcode Rev # 2. CONSOLE FW REV# 0.1
Standard Microcode Patch Patch Rev # 1.
GENERIC DK SUB-SYSTEM, UNIT _UMDSP$DKA0:
HW REVISION 342E3741
HW REVISION = A7.4
ERROR TYPE 06
INVALID MODE SENSE DATA RETURNED
SCSI ID 00
SCSI ID = 0.
SCSI LUN 00
SCSI LUN = 0.
SCSI SUBLUN 00
SCSI SUBLUN = 0.
PORT STATUS 00000001
%SYSTEM-S-NORMAL, NORMAL SUCCESSFUL
COMPLETION
SCSI CMD 003F001A
0096
MODE SENSE
SCSI STATUS 00
GOOD
MODE SENSE DATA
MEDIUM TYPE 00
DEFAULT MEDIUM TYPE
FLAGS 00
WRITE ENABLED
BLOCK DESC 1. E7CD0800
00020000
_DEFAULT DENSITY OF MEDIUM
_NUMBER OF BLOCKS = 576999.
_BLOCK LENGTH = 512.
PAGE DESC 1. 08880A81
00000000
00000003
PAGE CODE = 01(X)
ERROR RECOVERY PARAMETERS
_ENABLE EARLY CORRECTION
_ENABLE AUTOMATIC WRITE REALLOC
_RETRY CNT = 8.
_CORRECTION SPAN = 0.
_HEAD OFFSET CNT = 0.
_DATA STROBE OFFSET CNT = 0.
_RECOVERY TIME LIMIT = 0. MSEC
PAGE DESC 2. 80020A82
V A X / V M S SYSTEM ERROR REPORT COMPILED 21-JAN-1993 15:44:00
PAGE 2.
00000000
00000000
PAGE CODE = 02(X)
DISCONNECT/RECONNECT CONTROL PARAMS
_BUFFER FULL RATIO = 2.
_BUFFER EMPTY RATIO = 128.
_BUS INACTIVITY LIMIT = 0. USEC
_DISCONNECT TIME LIMIT = 0. USEC
_CONNECT TIME LIMIT = 0. USEC
PAGE DESC 3. 39491603
00000008
1F000000
01006202
00000000
00000060
PAGE CODE = 03(X)
DIRECT ACCESS DEVICE FORMAT PARAMS
_18745. TRACKS/ZONE
_2048. ALTERNATE SECTORS/ZONE
_0. ALTERNATE TRACKS/ZONE
_0. ALTERNATE TRACKS/VOL
_31. SECTORS/TRACK
_610. DATA BYTES/PHYS SECTOR
_1. INTERLEAVE
_TRACK SKEW FACTOR = 0.
_CYLINDER SKEW FACTOR = 0.
_REMOVABLE
_HARD SECTOR
PAGE DESC 4. 49001204
00000139
00000000
00000000
00000000
PAGE CODE = 04(X)
RIGID DISK DRIVE GEOMETRY PARAMS
_NUMBER OF CYLINDERS = 18745.
_NUMBER OF HEADS = 1.
_START CYL WRITE PRECOMP = 0.
_START CYL REDUCE WRITE CURR = 0.
_DRIVE STEP RATE = 0.
_LANDING ZONE CYL = 0.
PAGE DESC 5. 00000A88
73018000
73017301
PAGE CODE = 08(X)
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PAGE DESC 6. 00000B2A
E7D50801
1F000800
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PAGE CODE = 2A(X)
VENDOR UNIQUE PAGE FORMATS
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PAGE 3.
PAGE DESC 7. 8001BC
PAGE CODE = 3C(X)
VENDOR UNIQUE PAGE FORMATS
PAGE DESC 8. 00000280
PAGE CODE = 00(X)
VENDOR UNIQUE PAGE CODE
UCB$B_ERTCNT 01
1. RETRIES REMAINING
UCB$B_ERTMAX 00
0. RETRIES ALLOWABLE
ORB$L_OWNER 00000000
OWNER UIC [000,000]
UCB$L_CHAR 1CC54008
DIRECTORY STRUCTURED
FILE ORIENTED
SHARABLE
AVAILABLE
ERROR LOGGING
ALLOCATED
CAPABLE OF INPUT
CAPABLE OF OUTPUT
RANDOM ACCESS
UCB$W_STS 0000
UCB$L_OPCNT 00000000
0. QIO'S THIS UNIT
UCB$W_ERRCNT 0001
1. ERRORS THIS UNIT
IRP$W_BCNT 0000
TRANSFER SIZE 0. BYTE(S)
IRP$W_BOFF 0000
TRANSFER PAGE ALIGNED
IRP$L_PID 0001002C
REQUESTOR "PID"
IRP$Q_IOSB 00000001
00F00000 IOSB, 0. BYTE(S) TRANSFERRED
ANAL/ERROR/SINCE=21-JAN-1993 15:00:00.00/OUT=TAHITI2.ERR
Larry Bleau
University of Maryland
bleau@umdsp.umd.edu
301-405-6223
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