jar@konkord.uucp (John Roberts) (09/26/90)
Here's my Vax question for today, We have a 730 at school with a R80 drive. When we tried to load VMS on it, Standalone backup would come back with 'FATAL CONTROLLER ERROR!'. So, being a smart person, I went out and found the first R80/RL02 (there on the same board) I could find. I put the new controller in the 730 and was ready for it to load vms. No such luck. Same problem. I then checked all the cables going to and from the R80, (yes, I 'ohmed' each 50+ pin cable. What else is there to do at school?) Nothing wrong with the cables. I then got my hands on a R80 diag book from DEC. I ran ALL the tests on the R80 (the R80 has self diags like the RA series). ALL the tests passes. I then tried to load VMS on RL02 (yes, I know, RL02 are only 10meg) But it did load VMS (for the first 10 meg at least). So, as you can imagine, I am very confused. WHAT COULD BE THE PROBLEM???? Any help would be great! Thank!!!! -- John A. Roberts (508)460-4646 X197 Concord Communications, Inc. uunet!konkord!jar 753 Forest Street or Marlboro, MA 01752, USA jar%konkord@uunet.uu.net
terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr) (09/28/90)
In article <1990Sep25.212602.5815@uunet!konkord>, jar@konkord.uucp (John Roberts) writes: > So, as you can imagine, I am very confused. WHAT COULD BE THE > PROBLEM???? Two things come to mind: 1) The personality module on the R80 could be bad - the tests don't check all of it, or 2) You have found a stand-alone backup bug (welcome to the [large] club). Try an older or newer version and see if that helps. Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, US terry@spcvxa.spc.edu (201) 915-9381