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Conference ssdevo::hsz40_product

Title:HSZ40 Product Conference
Moderator:SSDEVO::EDMONDS
Created:Mon Apr 11 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:902
Total number of notes:3319

815.0. "Digital Unix install" by NETRIX::"[email protected]" (Drew Kramer) Tue Mar 18 1997 19:47

I have an AlphaStation 255, with a kzpsa card cabled up to an hsz40.  The
hsz40 is running version 3.0 and I'm trying to install Digital Unix 4.0B
from CD-ROM.  I get up to the point where it should be trying to query dkc0
and I get SCSI timeouts.

I believe that the hsz40 is configured properly, I have 4 disks in a raid5
configuration that has a unit d0 mapped to it.  I see both the kzpsa and the
hsz40 from a "show dev" or "show config" command from the SRM console prompt.

Is there anything major I've overlooked?  Thanks!
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815.1SSDEVO::T_GONZALESWed Mar 19 1997 15:593
    I assume that you are trying to install unix on the unit on the hsz?
    When you say query, is that query from the console code or the unix
    install ?
815.2I have seen thisUTOPIE::OETTLhide bug until worst timeWed Mar 19 1997 16:488
I have a similar problem on AS255 running dUNIX V4.0B.
These systems only use the internal SCSI but exhibit the same problem.
Often the systems hang or "try to crash" on reboot or boot after power-up when
accessing the SCSI bus (Loading SIOP .....).
I have opened an IPMT and this problem is being worked on.


�tzi
815.3SolutionNETRIX::"[email protected]"Drew KramerWed Mar 19 1997 18:1913
To answer the first question, my "query" was from the digital unix
boot process not from the console.  I did figure out what the problem
was however.

I also had a narrow-single-ended scsi card installed on the PCI bus.
Once that was removed all of the problems vanished.  DU installed like
a champ and I was even able to repartition the drive from stand-alone 
unix.

It really does look like a big (reliable) drive.  Very cool.  I even
have the swap allocated on the raid5.

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815.4SMURF::KNIGHTFred KnightThu Mar 20 1997 15:008
Some adapters will do bad things to the system under some
rare mis-configuration conditions.  Connecting a terminator
or a device to them usually solves their problem.

Maybe that adapter had one of these problems, or maybe it
was just broken.

	Fred