MicroVAX II - TK50 problem

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:05:19 -0700, willisjo at zianet.com
<willisjo at zianet.com> wrote:
> The saga continues...
> 
> Got the system running finally, but now I can't get the TK50 tape drive
> to work. Have checked the cabling, reseated everything, and even tried
> a different TQK50 controller. Have tried the following from VMS 5.1:
> 
> $ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:SYSGEN
> SYSGEN> SET NOAUTOCONFIG 0
> SYSGEN> AUTOCONFIGURE ALL/SELECT=(PT)
> 
> (at this point the system hangs... same if I omit the /SELECT, and the
> only way I can get out of it is to halt the system from the console.)
> 
> Here's what the system is showing:
> 
>        Welcome to VAX/VMS version V5.1
>    Last interactive login on Thursday, 10-MAR-2005 10:27
> $ SHOW DEV
> 
> Device                  Device           Error    Volume         Free  Trans
> Mnt
> Name                   Status           Count     Label        Blocks Count
> Cnt
> DUA0:                   Mounted              0  VMSRL5          184419    94
> 1
> 
> Device                  Device           Error
> Name                   Status           Count
> OPA0:                   Online               0
> TXA0:                   Online               8
> TXA1:                   Online               0
> TXA2:                   Online               0
> TXA3:                   Online               0
> TXA4:                   Online               0
> TXA5:                   Online               0
> TXA6:                   Online               0
> TXA7:                   Online               0
> 
> Device                  Device           Error
> Name                   Status           Count
> PUA0:                   Online               1
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> John P. Willis
> 
> 
 I'm not a major expert on vms, but I've had a similar problem on a
4000. I took all the qbus boards out of the machine and put them all
in one by one until it booted. The one card left turned out to need
termination before vms would boot.
You may have a similar problem, try taking everything out apart from
the tk50 card and see how that goes with an autoreconfigure.

Dan