mike@VAX1.ACS.UDEL.EDU (PORTER) (09/03/86)
We have been having a problem with AUTO-RESTART on a VAX 11/780. Our primary boot device is an RP07, DRA1 (not DRA0). When a normal shutdown occurs, and auto-restart is requested, the system auto-restarts as expected. When a power failure occurs and power is restored, the following occurs: CPU Halt INIT SEQ HALT at 000000 (REALOADING WCS) LOAD DONE VER: ... (AUTO-RESTART) CPU HALT INIT SEQ DONE HALT INST HALTED AT 20003563 (BOOTING) CPU HALTED INIT HALT HALTED AT 20003552 G 0000000E 00000200 LOAD DONE, 00005E00 BYTES LOADED%BOOT-F-Nonexistant drive ... It would appear that the drive has not spun up in time before it is needed to boot the system. It is my understanding that this is an old error in VMS that was fixed back in the 3.X days. Does this error happen on other systems? Did 4.2 re-introduce it, and we simply have not caught it til now? The auto-restart switch is set. We recently had the RP07s changed from interleaved to non-interleaved sectors when we installed a new EMC2 dual memory controller and memory. As part of this, an FCO was applied to the drives to avoid HCRC errors. Other than this, no changes have been to the system since 4.2 was introduced. The following is our defboo.cmd file. ! ! DB1 BOOT COMMAND FILE - DB1BOO.CMD ! HALT ! HALT PROCESSOR UNJAM ! UNJAM SBI INIT ! INIT PROCESSOR DEPOSIT/I 11 20003800 ! SET UP SCBB DEPOSIT R0 0 ! DISK PACK DEVICE TYPE DEPOSIT R1 8 ! MBA TR=8 DEPOSIT R2 1 ! ADAPTER UNIT = 1 DEPOSIT R3 1 ! CONTROLLER UNIT = 1 DEPOSIT R4 0 ! BOOT BLOCK LBN (UNUSED) DEPOSIT R5 4000 ! SOFTWARE BOOT FLAGS DEPOSIT FP 0 ! SET NO MACHINE CHECK EXPECTED START 20003000 ! START ROM PROGRAM WAIT DONE ! WAIT FOR COMPLETION ! EXAMINE SP ! SHOW ADDRESS OF WORKING MEMORY+^X200 LOAD VMB.EXE/START:@ ! LOAD PRIMARY BOOTSTRAP START @ ! AND START IT Thanks for any help or information. Mike Porter Arpa: mike@vax1.acs.udel.EDU Phone: (302) 451-6081