topic Re: PCSI problem in Operating System - OpenVMS

PCSI problem

Gregg Parmentier — Thu, 11 May 2006 11:00:23 GMT

When I try to install a patch with "product install" on my OpenVMS 7.3-1 I get the following error:

"%PCSI-E-NOPEV, product DEC AXPVMS VMS731_TTDRVR V1.0 is missing version equivalency class representative"

This is a fatal error for the install.

Re: PCSI problem

Karl Rohwedder — Thu, 11 May 2006 11:06:20 GMT

Gregg,

habe you installed the UPDATE and PCSI patch before and is the PCSI file fixed with 512 byte record length?

regards kalle

Re: PCSI problem

Gregg Parmentier — Thu, 11 May 2006 11:40:17 GMT

The patches I'm trying to install now that give this same error are:

dec_axpvms-vms731_acrtl-v0400--4.pcsi
dec_axpvms-vms731_driver-v0300--4.pcsi
dec_axpvms-vms731_lan-v1300--4.psci

I haven't installed these before.

The .PCSI files are fixed length with 8192 byte records.

The patch level for PCSI is v2.0.

Re: PCSI problem

Volker Halle — Thu, 11 May 2006 12:03:45 GMT

Gregg,

a %PCSI-E-NOPEV error was fixed with VMS732_PCSI-V0200 in FEB-2006, see section 5.2.4 in the release notes.

The most recent VMS731_PCSI-V0200 ECO kit is from MAR-2004, so if this would be the same problem, you may be out of luck.

Volker.

Re: PCSI problem

Volker Halle — Thu, 11 May 2006 12:42:09 GMT

Gregg,

which VMS731_UPDATE kit did you install ?
Does PROD SHOW UTIL show the right version ?

I would suggest to install VMS731_UPDATE-V0600, if you haven't installed VMS731_UPDATE-V0500 already and then VMS731_LAN-V1300, VMS731_DRIVER-V0300 and VMS731_ACRTL-V0400.

You do have a good backup of your system disk ?

Volker.

Re: PCSI problem

Volker Halle — Thu, 11 May 2006 12:50:44 GMT

Gregg,

you may search in google groups for 'pcsi-e-nopev' to find a discussion from back in NOV-2004 about this type of problem:

http://groups.google.de/group/comp.os.vms/browse_frm/thread/3ae77474340ace89/fcb611fb500c245a?lnk=st&q=pcsi-e-nopev&rnum=1&hl=de#fcb611fb500c245a

Volker.

Re: PCSI problem

Volker Halle — Thu, 11 May 2006 13:01:09 GMT

Gregg,

after re-reading the entry in c.o.v. a couple of times, your situation seems to be:

- a 'fix' seems to have been coded into PCSI on 1-JUL-2004. This fix seems to have been released in VMS732_PCSI-V0200 (see release note).

- there never was a fix released for V7.3-1 (latest VMS731_PCSI-V0200 is from 3-MAR-2004

- a workaround seems to be to put each of the .PCSI kits into a separate directory and install them from there.

Good luck,

Volker.

Re: PCSI problem

Gregg Parmentier — Wed, 24 May 2006 12:09:55 GMT

Not a solution per se, but I have determined my install is totally messed up. It won't boot right now, so I'm reinstalling. A bugcheck running sysinit on boot isn't something I want to try to track down.