[Info-vax] DEC Multia (UDB) issues

[Stafford Winters]

On 8/22/2011 7:21 AM, MG wrote:
> Generally speaking: Are SCSI failures common?  I recently tried to
> directly boot an OpenVMS Alpha V8.3 installation CD, in an RRD43 and
> also a Yamaha SCSI CD-R/RW drive later (which was properly detected
> in the SRM), but I'm getting SCSI bus errors.
I'd look at SCSI bus length and termination, and then maybe termination 
power.
> The NVR/TOY battery is also dead, might this be affecting it?
I can't imagine that it would.

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