From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Newsgroups: fa.info-vax
Title: SI drives on VAX
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.7753
Posted: Wed Jun 23 13:19:14 1982
Received: Sun Jun 27 05:16:30 1982

>From reece@NADC Wed Jun 23 13:20:24 1982
I have a vax 11/780 running 4.1BSD UNIX with two  Systems  Indus-
tries  RM05  type drives with their 9400 controller hooked to the
SBI.  Almost daily I have a problem where one or the other drives
is "hung" and has to be cleared by hitting the reset on the 9400.
SI techs have replaced everything north of  the  physical  drives
with no positive results. The latest theory is a firmware problem
in the 9400.  They say other customers have had similar problems.
The  register  dump always shows the last command to be "search".
One fix they came up with is to delete all  the  search  commands
from  the  op  system.   Does anyone out there identify with this
problem and (hopefully) know what the fix is?  I've  been  reset-
ting the system daily for about 4 months.

Jim Reece
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