This is just sort of a FYI message, I've already solved my problem.
It started off easy enough, I needed to use one of my Q-Bus VAXen, and was
planning on using the big old MV2. Turns out one of it's power supplies is
apparently dead :^( Haven't really had time to look into that.
No problem says I, I'll just throw one of the disks in my VAXstation II/RC.
The disk freaked out and made some really alarming noises. Turns out the
RQDX3 is apparently bad. I replaced it, and then it told me the drive was
off line. I proceeded to give the system a good checkup, and couldn't find
anything wrong, finally I pulled the other HD out of the MV2. It worked
just fine.
The answer to the problem appears to be that the first HD had been
initialized on a Emulex controller which is the primary controller in my
MV2, the second one was initialized on a RQDX3 (the secondary controller in
the MV2). Both had bootable VMS installs on them, unfortunatly the one I
needed was the first, but I've now got that taken care of. Just an
interesting and educational problem I thought I'd share.
Zane
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Received on Sat Jun 06 1998 - 21:33:50 BST