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Author Installation on AS600: Crash while configuring I/O board
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Posted on February 27 2007 12:26
Well, tried to install OpenVMS on my... khmmm... resurrected AlphaStation (see my post on comp.sys.dec), but PKQDRIVER bails out:
[code:1:9f9d412ecf]PKQDRIVER-W- PKB0, Port Shutdown due to numerous or serious ctrlr errors.[/code:1:9f9d412ecf]
Then there's BUGCHECK with the message[code:1:9f9d412ecf]INCONSTATE, Inconsistent I/O database[/code:1:9f9d412ecf]
Grepped in groups that it might be because VMS is issuing commands the I/O
controller doesn't understand. What can I do?

Rambo
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Posted on February 27 2007 17:22
Sounds like it's an unsupported controller. What does a SHOW DEVICE provide for the details for your controllers?
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Posted on February 28 2007 03:55
[quote:831b907bb8="HobbyistOne"]Sounds like it's an unsupported controller. What does a SHOW DEVICE provide for the details for your controllers?[/quote:831b907bb8]
[code:1:831b907bb8]DKB0.0.0.1002.0 DKB0 RZ1CC-BA 883F
DKB500.5.0.1002.0 DKB500 RRD45 1645
[... snip CPU and EWA-C]
PKA0.7.0.1001.0 PKA0 SCSI Bus ID 7 5.57
PKA0.7.0.1002.0 PKB0 SCSI Bus ID 7 5.57[/code:1:831b907bb8]
There you go- there was also a Symbios Logic SE SCSI card, but it's now removed and the thing doesn't change anything.
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Posted on February 28 2007 04:07
What's connected to PKB0? Is it properly terminated?

SCSI requires a termination at both ends of the bus, though typically, the controller provides the termination of that end of the bus. With a BA35X, there is a terminator block inside the case (which can be moved to provide a split bus, or removed for an unterminated bus for chaining to other devices.
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Posted on February 28 2007 08:44
Big update
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The good news is that after switching cables (PKB to PKA), the VMS installation ran smoothly. My question is now: how will the system react on drastic hardware downgrade (EV5->EV4, AS600->DEC2000/300).
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Posted on March 08 2007 00:04
you can take an image backup of that system and run it on a older system and often it can be fine.
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Posted on March 08 2007 02:46
OpenVMS is famously backward compatible. If your new hardware is running OpenVMS, the same disk image will run on older hardware, too. The only likely gotchas are going to be disk device naming, but logicals can take care of that!
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Posted on March 13 2007 11:55
[quotesmiley1d85574e8="HobbyistOne"]OpenVMS is famously backward compatible. If your new hardware is running OpenVMS, the same disk image will run on older hardware, too. The only likely gotchas are going to be disk device naming, but logicals can take care of that![/quotesmiley1d85574e8]
Turns out Jensen is an exception again smiley
Got VMS running on an 2 Gig WD disk, installed filesets, and removed the thing after reboot, before AUTOGEN- after putting it into Jensen GETDATA runs ok, but GENPARAMS stage bails out with a nasty error about "inproperly handled condition" (hard to see- scrolls too fast).
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Posted on March 13 2007 17:52
That's probably one of the tools for gathering feedback and such. If you can, catch the output of AUTOGEN with:

$ @SYS$UPDATE:AUTOGEN <start> <end> /OUTPUT=AUTOGEN.LOG

That should log the output of the failure, and hopefully track it down. Hopefully, it's just a bug in the feedback stuff, and you can avoid that with ading "NOFEEDBACK" as a third arguement to AUTOGEN
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Posted on March 14 2007 00:08
[quote:ff7b317ac0="HobbyistOne"]That's probably one of the tools for gathering feedback and such. If you can, catch the output of AUTOGEN with:

$ @SYS$UPDATE:AUTOGEN <start> <end> /OUTPUT=AUTOGEN.LOG

That should log the output of the failure, and hopefully track it down. Hopefully, it's just a bug in the feedback stuff, and you can avoid that with ading "NOFEEDBACK" as a third arguement to AUTOGEN[/quote:ff7b317ac0]
You'll unfortunately have to tell me how to do that , I'm getting "process logged out" message and stats- but no prompt smiley
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Posted on March 14 2007 02:05
try
$ @SYS$UPDATE:AUTOGEN GETDATA TESTFILES NOFEEDBACK
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