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  2. From: bleau@umdsp.umd.edu
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
  4. Subject: Tahiti-II optical drive trouble
  5. Message-ID: <18163@umd5.umd.edu>
  6. Date: 26 Jan 93 18:11:53 GMT
  7. Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu
  8. Reply-To: bleau@umdsp.umd.edu
  9. Organization: University of Maryland Physics Dept.
  10. Lines: 211
  11.  
  12. Hi, computeers.  How many have used the new Tahiti-II optical disk drive from
  13. MaxOptix?  It handles rewritable optical disks, and has two modes: 600MB ISO
  14. and 1GB ZCAV.  We bought one for a VAXstation 4000 model 90, and are having
  15. some trouble configuring it properly.
  16.  
  17. I connected the Tahiti-II drive to the 2nd SCSI bus (via TURBOchannel card) on
  18. the VS4000-90, and when I turned it on (the >>> comsole prompt) and did a SHOW
  19. CONFIG it didn't sho the Tahiti-II drive at all.  The SCSI cable is less than
  20. 16'.  The devices on it are a Fujitsu 1.0GB disk, and a Fujitsu 1.7GB disk. 
  21. Any idea why it wouldn't show up?
  22.  
  23. Just in case length was a problem, though, I moved the Tahiti-II drive to the
  24. 1st (main) SCSI bus.  Now a SHOW CONFIG displays the device at the correct SCSI
  25. ID.  Currently on that SCSI bus I have the internal RZ25 (RZ26?), an RRD40, an
  26. external Exabyte 8500, and the Tahiti-II, in that order.  All other devices on
  27. that bus (and the 2nd bus) work fine.  There were no self-test errors reported. 
  28. When I boot VMS the drive shows up as DKA0:, which is fine.  The problem here
  29. is that when I do a MOUNT on it, I get the message "fatal drive error".  The
  30. error counts goes to 1, but never increases, even after subsequent failed
  31. attempts to MOUNT.  I tried MOUNT /FOREIGN, also.
  32.  
  33. I examined the error log (there's only one entry for this), and it has an error
  34. type of "invalid mode sense data returned", port status of "normal successful
  35. completion", SCSI command of "mode sense", SCSI status of "good".  I've
  36. included the full entry below in case anyone can make any more "sense" out of
  37. it. 
  38.  
  39. I have the internal jumpers onthe Tahiti-II drive set to SCSI ID 0 and report
  40. device type as direct access.  The other setting for that jumper is to report
  41. as optical media, which I don't think VMS handles yet; either way it is set
  42. shouldn't affect operation, just device type reported.  There is one more
  43. jumper, which is to be inserted for MicroVAX II operation.  I've tried it both
  44. ways with the same result.
  45.  
  46. This drive did work once on a MicroVAX II with a CMD-220 SCSI adapter.  After
  47. some initial configuration problems it worked quite nicely.  I've run out of
  48. ideas of what to try next; so has MaxOptix, btw.  If anyone can shed some light
  49. I'd be grateful.  Thanks.
  50.  
  51. Lawrence Bleau
  52. University of Maryland
  53. bleau@umdsp.umd.edu
  54. 301-405-6223
  55.  
  56. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  57.  V A X / V M S        SYSTEM ERROR REPORT         COMPILED 21-JAN-1993 15:44:00
  58.                                                                       PAGE   1.
  59.  
  60.  ******************************* ENTRY     313. *******************************
  61.  ERROR SEQUENCE 6632.                            LOGGED ON:        SID 13000202
  62.  DATE/TIME 21-JAN-1993 15:43:05.59                            SYS_TYPE 04010002
  63.  SYSTEM UPTIME: 0 DAYS 01:05:53
  64.  SCS NODE: UMDSP                                               VAX/VMS V5.5-2
  65.  
  66.  DEVICE ERROR KA49  CPU Microcode Rev # 2.  CONSOLE FW REV# 0.1
  67.                       Standard Microcode Patch    Patch Rev # 1.
  68.  
  69.  GENERIC DK SUB-SYSTEM, UNIT _UMDSP$DKA0:
  70.  
  71.        HW REVISION     342E3741
  72.                                        HW REVISION = A7.4
  73.        ERROR TYPE            06
  74.                                        INVALID MODE SENSE DATA RETURNED
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  76.                                        SCSI ID = 0.
  77.        SCSI LUN              00
  78.                                        SCSI LUN = 0.
  79.        SCSI SUBLUN           00
  80.                                        SCSI SUBLUN = 0.
  81.        PORT STATUS     00000001
  82.                                        %SYSTEM-S-NORMAL, NORMAL SUCCESSFUL
  83.                                         COMPLETION
  84.        SCSI CMD        003F001A
  85.                            0096
  86.                                        MODE SENSE
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  88.                                        GOOD
  89.  
  90.  MODE SENSE DATA
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  108.                                        _ENABLE AUTOMATIC WRITE REALLOC
  109.                                        _RETRY CNT = 8.
  110.                                        _CORRECTION SPAN = 0.
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  112.                                        _DATA STROBE OFFSET CNT = 0.
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  116.  
  117.  V A X / V M S        SYSTEM ERROR REPORT         COMPILED 21-JAN-1993 15:44:00
  118.                                                                       PAGE   2.
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  124.                                        _BUFFER FULL RATIO = 2.
  125.                                        _BUFFER EMPTY RATIO = 128.
  126.                                        _BUS INACTIVITY LIMIT = 0. USEC
  127.                                        _DISCONNECT TIME LIMIT = 0. USEC
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  137.                                        DIRECT ACCESS DEVICE FORMAT PARAMS
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  139.                                        _2048. ALTERNATE SECTORS/ZONE
  140.                                        _0. ALTERNATE TRACKS/ZONE
  141.                                        _0. ALTERNATE TRACKS/VOL
  142.                                        _31. SECTORS/TRACK
  143.                                        _610. DATA BYTES/PHYS SECTOR
  144.                                        _1. INTERLEAVE
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  156.                                        RIGID DISK DRIVE GEOMETRY PARAMS
  157.                                        _NUMBER OF CYLINDERS = 18745.
  158.                                        _NUMBER OF HEADS = 1.
  159.                                        _START CYL WRITE PRECOMP = 0.
  160.                                        _START CYL REDUCE WRITE CURR = 0.
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  175.                                        VENDOR UNIQUE PAGE FORMATS
  176.  
  177.  V A X / V M S        SYSTEM ERROR REPORT         COMPILED 21-JAN-1993 15:44:00
  178.                                                                       PAGE   3.
  179.  
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  196.                                        FILE ORIENTED
  197.                                        SHARABLE
  198.                                        AVAILABLE
  199.                                        ERROR LOGGING
  200.                                        ALLOCATED
  201.                                        CAPABLE OF INPUT
  202.                                        CAPABLE OF OUTPUT
  203.                                        RANDOM ACCESS
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  214.                                        REQUESTOR "PID"
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  217. ANAL/ERROR/SINCE=21-JAN-1993 15:00:00.00/OUT=TAHITI2.ERR
  218.  
  219. Larry Bleau
  220. University of Maryland
  221. bleau@umdsp.umd.edu
  222. 301-405-6223
  223.