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

[Duncan Brown]

DeCoy wrote:
> 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.

I'm guessing the fact that the controller thinks it has no drives, but 4 
billion optimal drives (in addition to 6 degraded ones) is not a good 
sign...

I hated hated hated the SWXCR.  When it worked it did a fine job, but it 
was the fear of this kind of spurious problem, just about impossible to 
recover from, that made me happy to stop using the thing.  Not to 
mention the annoyance of having to take down VMS and boot SWXCRMGR to do 
any work on it.

Any chance he's got a good backup of the config on floppy and can reload 
it into a replacement controller?

Duncan