Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!speck@cit-vax From: speck@brl-tgr.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: RL02 headache Message-ID: <6639@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 13:39:13 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6639 Posted: Tue Dec 18 13:39:13 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 00:29:53 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 18 Our brand-new (Rev. 7) 750's came with RL02's instead of tape drives (bad idea!) so to bring up 4.2bsd I've put enough on the RL02 to be able to copy the rest via Ethernet. Partway through the copy I get hard RL02 errors (data late, operation incomplete); when I power-cycle and reboot, fsck finds the same thing, same sector. The DEC FE speculates that that sector's header gets messed up. VMS BAD and EVRAA give the pack a clean bill of health; if I rewrite it, it's fine again until I try copying via Ethernet onto the RA81. Same on both vaxes, I tried pack swaps, etc. The RL211 controller is at the head of the Unibus, followed by the DZ-11 (unused so far), an Interlan 10 Mbit Ether card, and the UDA-50. During the copy the latter two boards must be really hogging the bus - is that what the `data late' error-bit is about? DEC blames it on the software 'cause it does the same thing on both machines. Anybody have any clues/fixes/suggestions? Don Speck speck@cit-vax.arpa I get unix-wizards but not info-vax.