first step getting VAX 6000-400 booted ...

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Wed Oct 24 13:52:59 2001

At 08:56 AM 10/24/01, Gunther Schadow wrote:
>I don't have the console dump on that, but the only error message
>I recollect was:
>
>?3 Device I/O Error (or something very similar.)
>
>Would that be the appropriate response on an RA90 drive with
>wiped-out media? My drive completed all tests, including the
>spun-down and the spun-up tests (the latter includes disk
>access tests.)


Generally on MicroVAXen there is an error about NO SUCH FILE. Did you hear
the disk seek when you tried it?

--Chuck
Received on Wed Oct 24 2001 - 13:52:59 BST