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Conference turris::microvax

Title:	MicroVAX, VAXstation, VAX 4000 Systems

Moderator:	QUARK::LIONEL

Created:	Fri Jan 03 1986
Last Modified:	Fri May 30 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4370
Total number of notes:	18956

4344.0. "RZ29's seen as Generic devices on 4000-100" by SIOG::ODONNELL () Wed Jan 29 1997 05:58

    Hi,
    
    	A customer of mine has a BA350 with 2*RZ29's and 2 *RZ28's
    installed which is connected to a 4000-100.At VMS level the Drives are
    seen as Generic SCSI devices do I need to upgrade the firmware for the 
    drives to be seen as RZ29 or RZ28's ? .
    
    
    			Thanks in Advance
    
    
    			Brendan.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
4344.1		PROXY::J_EVANS		`Wed Jan 29 1997 12:38`	4
	Sounds like the operating system is below VMS 6.1. This is normal for OS's that were before the drives were qual'd jim
4344.2	Various Considerations...	XDELTA::HOFFMAN	Steve, OpenVMS Engineering	`Wed Jan 29 1997 15:54`	16
	The "generic" label is common when the necessary device information was not built into the OpenVMS kernel. The SCSI device recognition mechanism was changed at V6.2, and in V6.2 and later, OpenVMS now queries the drive for its name. As for whether or not you need to upgrade the firmware in the RZ29 drives, you'll need to ask that of the folks that keep track of the current RZ firmware releases. You'll also want to check and see if the BA350 enclosure has been updated to support the RZ29 drives -- this configuration may (will?) result in overheating problems. (There was an upgrade kit for this purpose that included new fans and some foam pieces: BA35X-MJ.)