Hi,
please, someone with an RA90 service manual (Joop?) can you give
me a list of the error codes? Or is the RA9x service manual scanned
somewhere? I have tested out my two SA600 racks' worth of RA90
drives and found that 7 out of 16 have some problem. They all had
a problem with their fans not spinning up at first, but after a
couple of attempts this seems like not a big problem.
There is only one that's really dead (drive, not power supply) in
that the green LED at the rear (on the power supply) lights up
only dim and nothing will come up at the front at all. This is
same with a different PSU swapped on, so it's the drive, not the
PSU. Not quite sure what to do with that one.
But 4 or so of them fail only when trying to spin them up and
return an error code 7C. It sounds like they do spin up but when
trying to seek the fist time they immediately determine they
failed. OTOH, in at least one case just retrying it a couple of
times will eventually bring it up and running.
Another 2 of them fail earlier when trying to spin up. They
come up with erorr E0 pretty much as soon as it's trying to
spin up.
Yet another one comes up with various errors even before spinning
up, and one more seems to work but somewhere down the road may
or may not fail with various errors. 54 is one I can remember, but
there were all kinds of numbers, none of which mentioned in the
RA9x user manual.
thanks for your generous advice,
-Gunther
PS: But I do have one full SA600 rack with working drives and boy,
it's pretty impressive firing this up. So many buttons to push
and lights to monitor, it's fun. One drive contains VMS 7.2 and
I'm sure lots of goodies, but I will not back those up. Once
I've switched to UNIX I can try RAID with them :-). Does anybody
know if the HSC90 by itself does RAID given a disk array and
the proper configuration?
--
Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow_at_regenstrief.org
Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org
--
Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow_at_regenstrief.org
Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org
Received on Sat Nov 24 2001 - 20:37:35 GMT