Conference ayjen1::jensen

603.0. "Jensen and Quantum Fireball disks?" by UTRUST::TIMMER (Semper TECO!) Thu Mar 06 1997 07:02

    I have inherited an empty Jensen on which I want to install both
    OpenVMS and Windows-NT.
    I have installed 128 Mb of memory and two Quantum Fireball 3.2 Gb
    SCSI drives (you don't want to know why I don't use RZ's, it's our
    wonderful internal ordering process...)
    The Jensen ROM version is 2.2. VMS PAL X5.48 / OSF PAL X1.35.
    SRM 370.
    When I try to install VMS I boot from CDrom, answer a couple of
    questions, until it gets to the point where it tries to initialize
    and mount the target disk. There it hangs. After a while the CD
    is ejected. It does not make any difference whether I use VMS
    version 7.1 or 6.2.
    When I go into DCL from the menu, I can see the disks allright, I
    can even INIT them and mount them foreign. When try to mount them
    normally, the same hang happens, the CD goes into and comes out of
    mount verification. When I do a mount/noassist, the system also
    comes back with the message:
    	%MOUNT-F-MAPHDRBAD, storage map header is bad; volume locked
    
    When I try to load the Windows-NT 4.0 system, I boot from the CD,
    the Windows NT Setup screen appears, it says: 
    	Setup is loading files (Windows NT Executive)
    but after a short while get the message:
    	File \alpha\ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded.
    	The error code is 4
    
    Any ideas?
    
    Rien.
    

   The Jensen/Adaptec is *very* sensitive to SCSI configurations.
   I'd avoid third-party drives, and I'd avoid non-DIGITAL CD-ROMs.
   If you want to go through the "joy" of qualifying a SCSI drive,
   I wish you well.