Vax 3100/80 among other things.

From: cvisors_at_carnagevisors.net <(cvisors_at_carnagevisors.net)>
Date: Mon Apr 22 18:27:31 2002

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:31:19AM +1000, cvisors_at_carnagevisors.net wrote:
>
> > I am just playing round with *BSD on this machine at the moment, and will
> > probably settle on one or the other..
> Yes. Evaluate the choices and take the one that suites your needs best.
>
> > the machine came with an external scsi expansion with two drives, one of
> > the drives refuses to power up properly, but that is dependent on where it
> > is sittin in the scsi expansion, ie if I switch the drives around the
> > other will work and the one that was working doesnt.
> Ahhh. Bad PWR connector?
> Does "refuses to power up properly" mean: Does not spin up but is present
> on the SCSI bus. Or: Does not spin up and is not present on the SCSI bus?
>
It doesn't spin up but is present on the SCSI bus, thats whats happening.

I didn't think it would be the power connector for the drive, as it comes
out of the power supply, loops to the drive that doesn't work and then to
the drive that does.


Benjamin
Received on Mon Apr 22 2002 - 18:27:31 BST