Hello all,

I have a PWS600au with Linux/Alpha installed on it. I also have a BA350 
with two disks. One of them has VMS 7.3-1 on it.

I wish to boot from that disk and perform a restore of the local system 
disk, because the PWS600 has an IDE CD-ROM (for the moment).

When I boot and get to the SRM prompt, I see my PKA controller but not 
the disks 200 and 300.

What would you do to have vms installed as fast as possible?
FAQ did not help.

Thanks,

D.

In article <42aeee68$0$25699$636a15ce@news.free.fr>, Didier Morandi <prenom.nom@freesurf.fr> writes:

>I have a PWS600au with Linux/Alpha installed on it. I also have a BA350 
>with two disks. One of them has VMS 7.3-1 on it.
>
>I wish to boot from that disk and perform a restore of the local system 
>disk, because the PWS600 has an IDE CD-ROM (for the moment).
>
>When I boot and get to the SRM prompt, I see my PKA controller but not 
>the disks 200 and 300.
>
>What would you do to have vms installed as fast as possible?
>FAQ did not help.

Did you install the latest firmware? Next, check the SCSI bus for unique IDs
and proper termination.

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   Christoph Gartmann

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Christoph Gartmann wrote:

> Did you install the latest firmware? Next, check the SCSI bus for unique IDs
> and proper termination.

no,
yes,
that was it. One of my two PK cards seems to have a terminator included 
and not the second one. So I plugged the BA in PKA instead of PKB and 
now I see my disks.
Thanks,

D.

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 21:11:17 +0200, Didier Morandi  
<prenom.nom@freesurf.fr> wrote:

> Christoph Gartmann wrote:
>
>> Did you install the latest firmware? Next, check the SCSI bus for  
>> unique IDs
>> and proper termination.
>
> no,
> yes,
> that was it. One of my two PK cards seems to have a terminator included  
> and not the second one. So I plugged the BA in PKA instead of PKB and  
> now I see my disks.
> Thanks,
The second one may have been a differential controller
>
> D.

Didier Morandi wrote:
> Christoph Gartmann wrote:
> 
>> Did you install the latest firmware? Next, check the SCSI bus for 
>> unique IDs
>> and proper termination.
> 
> 
> no,
> yes,
> that was it. One of my two PK cards seems to have a terminator included 
> and not the second one. So I plugged the BA in PKA instead of PKB and 
> now I see my disks.
> Thanks,
> 
> D.

Can it also be that the SCSI with terminators installed is actually a 
High Voltage Differential style adapter, e.q. KZPSA or KZPBA-CY and the
one WITHOUT those terminators might be the needed single-ended style 
adapter, e.q. KZPBA-CX?

attaching SE or LVD stuff like typical disks used on alphas to HVD 
adapter naturally does not work, at least does not work without a HVD to
SE/LVD converter.

_veli