[Info-vax] Eisner? Down? (10 days later)

[DeCoy]

To answer a number of replies:

I have suggested that the easiest and most straightforward solution is to 
get the Mylex-driven RAID 5 array to work.

We have spare 9GB drives for that.  My suggestion was that Stephen, with 
whatever support and advice are available, work on that FIRST, to see if 
it's viable (given hardware, software, and peopleware).

If we can't do that, then we'll explore alternatives for replacing the whole 
disk setup.  We may have some in hand, but offers are appreciated.  We would 
certainly go to bigger drives, at that point.

I'll briefly quote Stephen here, in case somebody can spot something:

<quote>
In some of tries of the last experiment, the system console came alive
and attempted to boot VMS.  You can see the last of the output in the
screen shot at http://www.Arnold.com/Photo_123108_002.jpg.  Note the
message "SCSI drive at channel 2, target 1 dead".  The message about CPU
01 starting are not relevant.  Nothing else happens and there is no disk
activity after that message.


>From this point I was able to ^P and give console commands.  Since
storage is the problem, I entered "show disk".  The output is in the
screen shot at http://www.Arnold.com/Photo_123108_003.jpg.  DRA0-5 are
drives defined on the seven-member RAID set in the built-in shelf, on
channels 1-2 of the Mylex controller.  DRA6 is on the six-member RAID
set in the external gray storage shelf.  (We also have the FTP
repository on large ATA drive connected via an ATA-SCSI adpater: DKA0.)
<end of quote>



[Footnote: somebody mentioned getting an account on Eisner - those are 
"free", of course assuming that the system runs]