topic Re: RTE-A in Operating System - HP-UX

RTE-A

Doug Johnson_3 — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:56:52 GMT

I've inherited a A600 running RTE-A, can anyone tell me where I can find info about RTE-A, perhaps a forum, anything would help. Having problems with the boot disk. Thanks

Re: RTE-A

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:07:58 GMT

Hi,

You may find some info here..
http://www.hp.com/products1/rte/tech_support/supported_products.html

-USA..

Re: RTE-A

Sanjay_6 — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:21:41 GMT

Hi Doug,

Here are two threads from itrc

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=1481be9217d8f4298e/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000024718192

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=1481be9217d8f4298e/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000006305742

Hope this helps.

thanks

Re: RTE-A

Frank Slootweg — Thu, 01 Nov 2001 11:10:12 GMT

I am not aware of any specific RTE/HP1000 forum, but from time to time RTE/HP1000 questions are asked in the general comp.sys.hp.* Usenet Newsgroups, mostly in comp.sys.hp.misc.

If you have no generic access to Usenet Newsgroups, then you can access them via Google Groups:

http://groups.google.com/groups

Re: RTE-A

Graham Cameron_1 — Thu, 01 Nov 2001 16:21:21 GMT

I have a lot (12+ years) RTE experience
and still do the odd days consultancy in UK.
If you have specific questions I'll try and help.
There is a section on HP's site at
http://www.hp.com/products1/rte/sectionmap/index.html
which has links to partners who offer support and links to other archives.
If you have disk problems there are a number of diagnostics and exercisers, but they can be fairly specialised and also depend on the disk interface (internal, hp-ib, scsi).

Re: RTE-A

Doug Johnson_3 — Thu, 01 Nov 2001 16:55:38 GMT

Graham, Thanks for the reply. I have the following errors which were given to me by one of the users. So the syntax may be a little off I haven't seen the actual errors. Haven't worked with RTE-A B4 and very little with HPs. Anyway the machine is up and running right now, but gets errors and has to be power cycled to clear. Sometimes the machine will stay up for weeks without problems, sometime 15 minutes and anywhere in-between. Errors below:

I/O device error on LU 12 The reason is: Drive fault

Device has been downed (use UP, lu to try recovery.

Requested has been flushed
*LU 13 FA ST = 1000
Error = 377 0 1000 0 0
PARM = 0 2 136 125600 0

I/O device error on LU 13 the reason is:
Drive fault

Device has been down (us up, lu to try recovery)
Disc LU is dow

Re: RTE-A

Graham Cameron_1 — Fri, 02 Nov 2001 14:54:01 GMT

Looks like you have an HP-IB disk which is
logically split into at least 2 LUs (logical units) - 12 and 13.
The errors you report are from the driver. Not having manuals to hand I can't interpret the numbers for you - you need to look in the Driver Ref Man, under DD*33 CS80 disk driver.
However, they look pretty serious and I would get an engineer to check out the hardware (you *do* have a support contract don't you?) and check out your backup tapes. You will need a bootable tape and a set of one or more (depends on no and size of disks) ASAVE tapes and maybe your regular (FST or TF) backups.
Good luck.

Re: RTE-A

Doug Johnson_3 — Fri, 02 Nov 2001 15:16:51 GMT

Thanks for the info Graham. No we *don't* have a support contract. Question: I have another disk drive, can I backup the present disk, restore it to the other drive and everything's OK? Most OSs require you have install a bootblock after something like this.

Re: RTE-A

Graham Cameron_1 — Mon, 05 Nov 2001 08:56:40 GMT

Yes you can, although of course any corruption on the disk will be incorporated into the backup.
You need to use ASAVE, which is a physical save, (use ARSTR to restore it).
You also need to have a bootable system, either on disk or tape because to ARSTR the system to the new disk you must disconnect the old disk and replace it with the new.
I am happy to guide you through this, but rather than take up lots of forum space, I suggest we take this offline.
Contact me direct at graham.cameron@rockside.co.uk
This is my home email. If you mail me today I will respond this evening (UK time!)
Useful info would be the output from the following commands:
frees
revlevel
dl @.@.e -s
li /system/boot.cmd