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 -------