[comp.sys.dec] Strange error problem...help!

rgc@wam.umd.edu (Ross Garrett Cutler) (09/16/90)

Hello,
	We have a VAXstation 3200 (ba23) with the following devices:
		- 300 MB HD (MSCP)
		- 600 MB HD (SCSI, but looks like a MSCP)
		- 600 MB optical (SCSI, but looks like MSCP)
		- line printer (lp0)
		- 9 track tape drive (digi-data)
		- ethernet (delqa)
		- TK50
		- vcb02 video subsystem (graphics console)
		- 16 MB RAM

We've been getting an "RX-50" error (shown below, after the config file)
that we don't know what to make of.  A RX-50 is a DEC floppy drive,
but we don't have one.  Since our system works fine, we didn't
worry about it much; and we hoped that it would disapear with ULTRIX 4.0.
But it's still here, and it's filling up our error logger file.  Any ideas?
Thanks much...

--- config file ---

ident		"NEUROVAX"
machine		vax
cpu		"VAX3600"
maxusers	32
processors	1
maxuprc		50
physmem		16
timezone	5 dst 1

options         EMULFLT 

options		QUOTA
options		INET
options		NFS
options		RPC
options		DLI
options		UFS
options		UWS

config		vmunix	root on ra0a  swap on ra0b    dumps on ra0b  

adapter         uba0       at nexus?    
controller      uda0       at uba0      
controller      uq0        at uda0      csr 0172150  vector uqintr 
disk            ra0        at uq0       drive 0
controller      klesiu0    at uba0      
controller      uq16       at klesiu0   csr 0174500  vector uqintr 
tape            tms0       at uq16      drive 0
controller      zs0        at uba0      csr 0172520  vector tsintr 
tape            ts0        at zs0       drive 0
device          qd0        at uba0      csr 0177400  flags 0xf  vector qddint qdaint qdiint 
device          qe0        at uba0      csr 0174440  vector qeintr 
device          lp0        at uba0      csr 0177514  vector lpintr 
controller      uda1       at uba0      
controller      uq17       at uda1      csr 0160334  vector uqintr 
disk ra1 at uq17 drive 0
disk ra2 at uq17 drive 1
disk ra3 at uq17 drive 2
disk ra4 at uq17 drive 3
controller     hl0       at  uba0      csr 0174400   vector rlintr  
disk           rl0       at  hl0       drive 0

scs_sysid	 1

pseudo-device	nfs
pseudo-device	rpc
pseudo-device	dli	
pseudo-device 	pty
pseudo-device	loop
pseudo-device	ether 
pseudo-device	ufs 
pseudo-device	inet 

--- sample error logger entry ---

********************************* ENTRY     9. *********************************

----- EVENT INFORMATION -----

EVENT CLASS                             ERROR EVENT 
OS EVENT TYPE                  102.     DISK ERROR 
SEQUENCE NUMBER                  0.
OPERATING SYSTEM                        ULTRIX 32 
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON                      Sun Sep 16 11:33:57 1990 EDT
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM                      neurovax.med 
SYSTEM ID                 x0A000004     MICROCODE REV = 4.
SYSTYPE REG.              x01530102
                                        FIRMWARE REV = 83.
PROCESSOR TYPE                          KA650 

----- UNIT INFORMATION -----

UNIT CLASS                              DSA DISK 
UNIT TYPE                               RX50 
CONTROLLER NO.                   0.
UNIT NO.                         0.
ERROR SYNDROME                          DISK TRANSFER ERROR 

********************************* ENTRY    10. *********************************

----- EVENT INFORMATION -----

EVENT CLASS                             ERROR EVENT 
OS EVENT TYPE                  102.     DISK ERROR 
SEQUENCE NUMBER                  1.
OPERATING SYSTEM                        ULTRIX 32 
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON                      Sun Sep 16 11:33:57 1990 EDT
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM                      neurovax.med 
SYSTEM ID                 x0A000004     MICROCODE REV = 4.
SYSTYPE REG.              x01530102
                                        FIRMWARE REV = 83.
PROCESSOR TYPE                          KA650 

----- UNIT INFORMATION -----

UNIT CLASS                              DSA DISK 
UNIT TYPE                               RX50 
CONTROLLER NO.                   0.
UNIT NO.                         0.
ERROR SYNDROME                          DISK TRANSFER ERROR 

********************************* ENTRY    11. *********************************
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Please email -- I'll summarize.
Ross Cutler
University of Maryland, College Park
Internet: rgc@wam.umd.edu

envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) (09/18/90)

In article <1990Sep16.163246.3545@wam.umd.edu>, rgc@wam.umd.edu (Ross Garrett
Cutler) writes:
|> Hello,
|> 	We have a VAXstation 3200 (ba23) with the following devices:
|> 		- 300 MB HD (MSCP)
|> 		- 600 MB HD (SCSI, but looks like a MSCP)
|> 		- 600 MB optical (SCSI, but looks like MSCP)
|> 		- line printer (lp0)
|> 		- 9 track tape drive (digi-data)
|> 		- ethernet (delqa)
|> 		- TK50
|> 		- vcb02 video subsystem (graphics console)
|> 		- 16 MB RAM
|> 
|> We've been getting an "RX-50" error (shown below, after the config file)
|> that we don't know what to make of.  A RX-50 is a DEC floppy drive,
|> but we don't have one.  Since our system works fine, we didn't
|> worry about it much; and we hoped that it would disapear with ULTRIX 4.0.
|> But it's still here, and it's filling up our error logger file.  Any ideas?
|> Thanks much...

We are also getting those RX-50 errors on our VAXstation II (ba23), and
we have no RX-50.  If anyone knows that the heck is going on, I would
also like to know. 

--
Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.