[Info-vax] 4 beeps DEC RF31 disk

[Michael Moroney]

Diego Claeys <diego.claeys at gmail.com> writes:

>Hello guys,

>one of my DEC RF31 disk died today.
>I was working on my vax 4000-200 and suddenly the disk stops spinning and the red light came up.
>I shutdown the system, power it off and on and the defunct disk beeps 4 times without spinning up.

>Any idea what that could mean?

There is a $ SET HOST/mumble command where you can talk to the DSSI controller 
and ask it what is going on.

Since it has been decades since I've used that, I don't remember the commands
or even what "mumble" is.