[Info-vax] DEC3000->DECServer90TL->CMM comunication problem

[Christoph Gartmann]

In article <a3e52044-60ae-4ca9-be07-55d8838895b8 at googlegroups.com>, emilwp at gmail.com writes:

>The machine is operated by the software called Quindos.

Where does this Quindos run on? On the DEC computer under VMS?

>The CMM is connected to port 1 of the DECServer90TL and DECServer connects
>to the DEC3000 through CentreCOM MR122T Micro repeater.

Ok.

>When starting Quindos we get an error message that it can not connect to the
>CMM just like the CMM was not powered on - but it is.
[..]
>Here is what I already was able to check:
>- I do not see any error messages during DEC start up on the screen,

This is good.

>- in VMS I was able to connect to the DecServer device (through the
>  commands: mcr ncp) and check the parameters of the ports

So the network connection between your VMS system and the DECserver is all
right.

>- I tried to print something but without success.

Here is the important part. How do the VMS system and the DECserver
communicate? I assume this is via LAT. Could you post your
   sys$manager:lat$systartup.com
?

>- I checked for the QUEUEs and there is one set: BATCH$LEITZ but it says
>  it's "autostared but stoped" - I do not know about "queues" so do not
>  know what that means, and I have no idea what could be wrong.

I assume the queu should be "idle". But I don't think it is relevant for the
connection problem. Please post the output of
   SHOW QUEUE/FULL/ALL

>Does anyone have any ideas what can I check/test?

Quite a few of them. But I need more information ;-)

>I do not know if following could be connected with it but the problems
>occurred after a day when we received message "not enough free blocks on
>disk" during saving a programme in Quindos.

This might be the cause for your trouble.

>what I did at that time was "purge" whole disk I think, could I delete some
>system files with that?

No, but this is not the approach I would choose. Something is filling up your
disk. The question is what? And how?

Regards,
   Christoph Gartmann

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