EX8200's ( was Re: QBUS Board ID?

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Tue Jul 10 15:49:30 2001

At 10:16 PM 7/10/01 +0200, you wrote:
>The EXB8200 is a rather strange device. It needs many quirks in the
>SCSI driver to work. So it may be plain incompatible with the card. Or
>the card wants a very special drive with a special firmware...

I've noticed this about the 8200. I've got a CMD card that talks to EX8200s
and so I tried it with two of the drives I have here.

One drive is broken, it can't pass its own power on self test. I looked to
see if there was anything obvious, when you power it on it goes "clunk-a",
pause, "clunk-a", pause, "clunk-a". For about a minute and then the front
lights flash. Does anyone want this one for parts or anything? If not I'll
toss it.

The second one goes "clunk-a, clunk-a, whirr, whirr" :-) and eventually is
ready to receive a tape. When hooked to the CQD-223/T it works (slow but it
works) and when hooked to the SMS card nothing happens. I've also got a
CMS tape controller (looks a lot like the CMD one) and it works with the
drive but it won't boot from the drive.

I've got one more board to check with this drive to see if it will be
usable in one of my VAXen. (I've got two other EX8200's so this one is
definitely in the 'spare' category :-)

--Chuck
Received on Tue Jul 10 2001 - 15:49:30 BST