Thanks everyone!
your posts were all very informative. I took home the following
points:
- my RA90 drive is not responding to the host, this is probably
because the drive number isn't set properly. I get "0000" in the
display but I should set it to "1" because "0000" means "unspecified".
Is that right?
The cabling swap issue is probably not the cause, unless there
are two kinds of cables. Geoff has backplane->bulkhead->drive
woking fine. Seems like backplane->bulkhead->SA800-bulkhead->drive
will also work. May be the bulkheads are doing the swapping,not
the cables?
So there is hope.
- I got my TU81+ powered up and load tapes etc. The tape excerciser
comes back with E06 though, I guess that means I need to do a bit
more scrubbing and cleaning? Anyway, I get to put a tape online.
Still, no MU other than MUC6 (TK) is detected by the VMS backup.
It also comes back with an I/O error if I try to boot from TU
directly. Do I have to set a unit number on the TU81 as well?
- My CIBCA problems are all explained simply because it's not
terminated to the star coupler. I have a star coupler and
HSC and everything for a serious cluster, just not all in the
basement yet. Will do that in time. For now CIBCA card set
is out. (BTW: do I have to screw those caps over all unused
connections on the star coupler?)
- For ULTRIX and perhaps even VMS 6.1 I may need to remove two
of my processors.
- The DMB32 parallel printer is not a Centronics interface. But
I may actually have a printer to go with it. A BIG thing, not
heavy but taking up precious space if I put it into my
basement.
- MOP booting Ultrix may not be as easy as I think. Perhaps
the VMS path is the best for now. Once I have control over
all devices, I can try copying the TK boot tape to TU if
that has a chance of better success.
regards
-Gunther
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