zx2000 , VMS 8.3 can not install

[brendanh]

Hello,
I've been lucky enough to have been borrowed a VMS 8.3 install DVD. Thank you.

I am having a large amount of issues trying to get it to install.
I do have the DVD rom on the Master via cable select on the HDD cable not the optical IDE cable.

I am also using IDE disks until my SCSI card gets here.

Receiving error "DQ - Medium not ready"

Heres the detailed information

Hoping someone can help me with this.
I've been pulling my hair out for a wile now.

Thanks

____________
FIRMWARE INFORMATION

Firmware Revision: 2.31 [4411]

PAL_A Revision: 7.31/5.37
PAL_B Revision: 5.65

SAL Spec Revision: 3.01
SAL_A Revision: 2.00
SAL_B Revision: 2.31

EFI Spec Revision: 1.10
EFI Intel Drop Revision: 14.61
EFI Build Revision: 1.22

POSSE Revision: 0.10

ACPI Revision: 7.00

BMC Revision 1.52
IPMI Revision: 1.00
SMBIOS Revision: 2.3.2a
Management Processor Revision:
________________

Booting VMS install with
fs0:
\efi\vms\vms_loader.efi

then this happens :-
_________________

fs0:\EFI\VMS> vms_loader
DQ - Medium Not Ready


**************************************************************
* Exception taken before exception handler has been loaded! *
* Unable to take crashdump. *
**************************************************************

* Exception Frame Display: *

Exception taken at IP 00000000.20369010, slot 01 from Kernel mode
Exception Frame at 00000000.202263E0
Trap Type 0000008A (PAL_HALT)
IVT Offset 00002C00 (Break Instruction Vector)

* = Value read directly from the register rather than the frame

Control Registers:
CR0 Default Control Register (DCR) 00000000.00007F00
CR1 Interval Timer Match Register (ITM) * 00000050.25EAC579
CR2 Interruption Vector Address (IVA) * 00000000.20340000
CR8 Page Table Address (PTA) * 00000000.0000003C
CR16 Processor Status Register (IPSR) 00001210.09026010
CR17 Interrupt Status Register (ISR) 00000200.00000000
CR19 Instruction Pointer (IIP) 00000000.20369010
CR20 Faulting Address (IFA) E0000000.00000000
CR21 TLB Insertion Register (ITIR) 00000000.00000030
CR22 Instruction Previous Address (IIPA) 00000000.20369010
CR23 Function State (IFS) 80000000.00000082
CR24 Instruction immediate (IIM) 00000000.00100003
CR25 VHPT Hash Address (IHA) 00000000.00808860
CR64 Local Interrupt ID (LID) * 00000000.00000000
CR66 Task Priority Register (TPR) * 00000000.00010000
CR68 External Interrupt Req Reg 0 (IRR0) * 00000000.00000000
CR69 External Interrupt Req Reg 1 (IRR1) * 00000000.00000000
CR70 External Interrupt Req Reg 2 (IRR2) * 00000000.00000000
CR71 External Interrupt Req Reg 3 (IRR3) * 00000000.00000000
CR72 Interval Time Vector (ITV) * 00000000.00010000
CR73 Performance Monitoring Vector (PMV) * 00000000.00010000
CR74 Corrected Machinecheck Vector (CMCV) * 00000000.00010000
CR80 Local Redirection Register 0 (LRR0) * 00000000.00010000
CR81 Local Redirection Register 1 (LRR1) * 00000000.00010000

Application Registers:
AR0 Kernel Register (KR0) * 00000000.20660000
AR1 Kernel Register (KR1) * 00000000.60000000
AR2 Kernel Register (KR2) * 00000000.00000000
AR3 Kernel Register (KR3) * 00000000.00000000
AR4 Kernel Register (KR4) * 00000000.00000000
AR5 Kernel Register (KR5) * 00000000.00000000
AR6 Kernel Register (KR6) * 00000000.00000000
AR7 Kernel Register (KR7) * 00000000.10001000
AR16 Register Stack Config Reg (RSC) 00000000.00000000
AR17 Backing Store Pointer (BSP) 00000000.20216A58
AR18 Backing Store for Mem Store (BSPSTORE) 00000000.20216A00
AR19 RSE NaT Collection Register (RNAT) 00000000.00000000
AR32 Compare/Exchange Comp Value Reg (CCV) 00000000.00000000
AR36 User NaT Collection Register (UNAT) 00000000.00000000
AR40 Floating-point Status Reg (FPSR) 0009804C.8270033F
AR44 Interval Time Counter (ITC) * 00000052.F7F7E642
AR64 Previous Function State (PFS) 00000000.00000590
AR65 Loop Count Register (LC) 00000000.00000000
AR66 Epilog Count Register (EC) 00000000.00000000

Processor Status Register (IPSR):
AC = 0 MFL= 1 MFH= 0 IC = 1 I = 1 DT = 1
DFL= 0 DFH= 0 RT = 1 CPL= 0 IT = 1 MC = 0 RI = 1
Interrupt Status Register (ISR):
Code 00000000 X = 0 W = 0 R = 0 NA = 0 SP = 0
RS = 0 IR = 0 NI = 0 SO = 0 EI = 1 ED = 0

Branch Registers: Region Registers:
B0 00000000.20280C60 RR0 * 00000000.00000034
B1 80000000.FFE073D0 RR1 * 00000000.00000030
B2 00000000.00000000 RR2 * 00000000.00000030
B3 00000000.00000000 RR3 * 00000000.00000030
B4 00000000.00000000 RR4 * 00000000.00000030
B5 00000000.00000000 RR5 * 00000000.00000030
B6 00000000.20297140 RR6 * 00000000.00000030
B7 00000000.20337890 RR7 * 00000000.00000334

Floating Point Registers: FPSR 0009804C.8270033F
F6 00000000.0001003E.00000000.000001FC
F7 00000000.0001003E.00000000.000000FE
F8 00000000.0001003E.00000000.00000002
F9 00000000.0001003E.00000000.00000008
F10 00000000.0000FFFF.80000000.00000000
F11 00000000.0000FFFC.80000000.00000000

Miscellaneous Registers:
Processor Identifier (CPUID 0,1) GenuineIntel
(CPUID 3) 00000000.1F010504
Interrupt Priority Level (IPL) 0000001F
Stack Align 000002D0
NaT Mask 003C
PPrev Mode 00
Previous Stack 00
Interrupt Depth 00
Preds 80000000.FF5FF29B
Nats 00000000.00000000
Context 80000000.FF58F293

General Registers:
R0 00000000.00000000 GP 00000000.20660000 R2 00000000.00000000
R3 00000000.202266B0 R4 00000000.FFDC5C30 R5 00000000.00000004
R6 00000000.00000000 R7 80000000.FED00000 R8 00000000.007281B4
R9 00000000.000000FE R10 00000000.00000304 R11 00000000.00000000
SP 00000000.20225FA8 TP 00000000.0000040A R14 00000000.20101648
R15 00000000.20226438 R16 00000000.00000000 R17 00000000.00000000
R18 00000000.00000000 R19 00000000.00000000 R20 00000000.00000000
R21 00000000.00000000 R22 00000000.00000000 R23 00000000.00000007
R24 00000000.20230500 R25 00000000.00000000 R26 00000000.20230200
R27 00000000.000000FF R28 00000000.20226458 R29 00000000.00000000
R30 00000000.20296670 R31 00000000.00000000

Interrupted Frame RSE Backing Store , Size = 2 registers

00000000.20216A58: 00000000.00000590 (R32)
00000000.20216A60: 00000000.20280BC0 (R33)

******************************************
* Using INIBRK to get help from Xdelta! *
******************************************
Brk 0 at 203472B1

203472B1! break.i 080003
203472B2! nop.i 000000

[Heuser-Hofmann]

It might be the same problem described here:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1049157

You must use the Harddisk-IDE-cable instead of
the Opticaldisk-cable.

Eberhard

[brendanh]

Quote :-
__________________________________________
It might be the same problem described here:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1049157

You must use the Harddisk-IDE-cable instead of
the Opticaldisk-cable.

Eberhard
___________________________________________

Thanks, But I am using the IDE HDD cable and not the optical cable.


I am not even getting to the OpenVMS banner.
I boot the vms_loader
then DQ - medium not ready
then the error

[Hoff]

Do you know if this box and if this OpenVMS I64 V8.3 DVD actually work?

As for the error, IPB looks to be blowing up here.

The IPB IDE ATA path is broken.

OpenVMS Alpha DS10 and DS10L were the only boxes that officially booted off IDE ATA disks. And only small ATA disks (<137GB) are supported even there.

I don't recall anybody that has particularly tried anything other than DVD bootstraps on IDE ATAPI on OpenVMS I64. DQDRIVER (and any pieces of IDE I/O lurking inside IPB) didn't see a whole lot of work and testing, other than for the DVD IDE ATAPI optical paths.

On the off chance that this isn't specifically IDE ATA at fault, and it's something else that's tripping IPB, pull any other secondary controllers and unnecessary giblets that might be present here. Graphics; anything else.

Pull the IDE ATA HD, and then see if the IDE ATAPI DVD then boots.

Do expect to have to wait for your SCSI bits to arrive.

[Robert Brooks_1]

Is the DVD the actual DVD from HP, or is it a copy? I seem to recall that there may be issues with using a copy.

-- Rob

[Steven Schweda]

> Is the DVD the actual DVD from HP, or is it
> a copy?

I'm roughly half a world away, so there are
limits to how sure I can be of his home-made
DVD, but I believe that he made it from an
image file which I used to make a DVD which
works just fine on _my_ zx2000, but it had
crossed only the Atlantic Ocean to get to me,
and the Pacific _is_ wider.

Clearly, the firmware believes that the thing
is bootable, so it can't be entirely mangled,
and "DQ - Medium Not Ready" doesn't sound (to
me) very much like a fundamental corruption
problem.

On the other hand, I've already run out of
ideas, but I'll bet that if someone mailed
him a copy of an actual DVD from HP, he'd be
willing to try it and report back. I'm just
guessing, though.

[brendanh]

Hoff:-
On a side note.
Your web site is very helpful, thanks.

With nothing but the DVD-Rom installed.
NO PCI/AGP no HDD nothing.

Same error happens.


Robert Brooks:-
I wish it was media from HP but thats like getting warm blood from a cold stone.
Its a "copy" .dsk image burnt using cdrecord under linux. Since I have no VMS machines yet.

Steven Schweda :-
I am getting a friend with a zx2000 to try that image file on his zx2000 and see what happens. If his boots well we know its not the image.

If someone was willing to mail me a real copy I'd pay the shipping and then some.

I am pretty sure the zx2000 is ok. I've currently got Gentoo Linux running on it and HP-UX 11.23.

Thanks everyone

[Hoff]

cdrecord raw disk image burn onto DVD+R on Linux? Ok. (Verified? When recording one-off optical, I prefer to verify the results.)

This box boots HP-UX and Linux? Ok.

That you can get into the fs0: partition to read its contents means that the media is at least partially readable. This is the FAT partition and EFI path, but hasn't yet used the IPB primary bootstrap nor the OpenVMS drivers.)

Two approaches toward continuing the debugging would be known-good media, and a known-good-with-VMS box.

Is this the HP DVD drive, or something lifted from elsewhere? (CD and DVD drives can be surprisingly incompatible. I've had good experiences with the Plextor drives I've worked with over the years. And since we're debugging, try swapping for another DVD brand, whether or not it's not the drive that shipped with the box.)

Also see if:

fs0:\EFI\VMS\vms_loader.efi -flags 30000,0

gets you anywhere with any debugging output.

Rob: you're probably thinking of distro disks that have traveled through magnetic disk storage -- non-image copies -- and those can work. The MBR and MBR-GPT bootpath did work with DVD media last I checked, though they weren't supported. Getting the El Torito structures written -- if you want to go that path -- is a bit more tricky, however. And in any case, you have to deal with the differences in block sizes -- 512 versus 2048 -- which do hit the boot path when moving between disk and optical media.

[brendanh]

Hoff:-

Thanks for the response.

Not sure how I can verify the DVD?
I've burnt 3 copies on DVD-r and I've lost count how many DVD-RW copies I've made.

I've tried a total of 4x dvd-rom drives
2x Pioneer, would not work at all just made the system beep like mad.

I've tried an LG(H+L Data) Multi Drive.
A H+L data DVD-Rom.

The two H+L drives work in fact I used the multi drive to install HP-UX and Gentoo.

I don't have any other brands here to try, Pioneer drives just refuse to work.

I have NO access to a working VMS machine.
A freind has a zx2000 he's going to try get VMS on his system using the same image.

The command :-
\EFI\VMS\vms_loader.efi -flags 30000,0

Gives the follwing output:-
___________________________________________
fs0:\> \EFI\VMS\vms_loader.efi -flags 30000,0
DQ - Medium Not Ready


**************************************************************
* Exception taken before exception handler has been loaded! *
* Unable to take crashdump. *
**************************************************************

* Exception Frame Display: *

Exception taken at IP 00000000.20369010, slot 01 from Kernel mode
Exception Frame at 00000000.202263E0
Trap Type 0000008A (PAL_HALT)
IVT Offset 00002C00 (Break Instruction Vector)

* = Value read directly from the register rather than the frame

Control Registers:
CR0 Default Control Register (DCR) 00000000.00007F00
CR1 Interval Timer Match Register (ITM) * 00000015.35E0E589
CR2 Interruption Vector Address (IVA) * 00000000.20340000
CR8 Page Table Address (PTA) * 00000000.0000003C
CR16 Processor Status Register (IPSR) 00001210.09026010
CR17 Interrupt Status Register (ISR) 00000200.00000000
CR19 Instruction Pointer (IIP) 00000000.20369010
CR20 Faulting Address (IFA) E0000000.00000000
CR21 TLB Insertion Register (ITIR) 00000000.00000030
CR22 Instruction Previous Address (IIPA) 00000000.20369010
CR23 Function State (IFS) 80000000.00000082
CR24 Instruction immediate (IIM) 00000000.00100003
CR25 VHPT Hash Address (IHA) 00000000.00808860
CR64 Local Interrupt ID (LID) * 00000000.00000000
CR66 Task Priority Register (TPR) * 00000000.00010000
CR68 External Interrupt Req Reg 0 (IRR0) * 00000000.00000000
CR69 External Interrupt Req Reg 1 (IRR1) * 00000000.00000000
CR70 External Interrupt Req Reg 2 (IRR2) * 00000000.00000000
CR71 External Interrupt Req Reg 3 (IRR3) * 00000000.00000000
CR72 Interval Time Vector (ITV) * 00000000.00010000
CR73 Performance Monitoring Vector (PMV) * 00000000.00010000
CR74 Corrected Machinecheck Vector (CMCV) * 00000000.00010000
CR80 Local Redirection Register 0 (LRR0) * 00000000.00010000
CR81 Local Redirection Register 1 (LRR1) * 00000000.00010000

Application Registers:
AR0 Kernel Register (KR0) * 00000000.20660000
AR1 Kernel Register (KR1) * 00000000.60000000
AR2 Kernel Register (KR2) * 00000000.00000000
AR3 Kernel Register (KR3) * 00000000.00000000
AR4 Kernel Register (KR4) * 00000000.00000000
AR5 Kernel Register (KR5) * 00000000.00000000
AR6 Kernel Register (KR6) * 00000000.00000000
AR7 Kernel Register (KR7) * 00000000.10001000
AR16 Register Stack Config Reg (RSC) 00000000.00000000
AR17 Backing Store Pointer (BSP) 00000000.20216A58
AR18 Backing Store for Mem Store (BSPSTORE) 00000000.20216A00
AR19 RSE NaT Collection Register (RNAT) 00000000.00000000
AR32 Compare/Exchange Comp Value Reg (CCV) 00000000.00000000
AR36 User NaT Collection Register (UNAT) 00000000.00000000
AR40 Floating-point Status Reg (FPSR) 0009804C.8270033F
AR44 Interval Time Counter (ITC) * 00000018.02E94DE2
AR64 Previous Function State (PFS) 00000000.00000590
AR65 Loop Count Register (LC) 00000000.00000000
AR66 Epilog Count Register (EC) 00000000.00000000

Processor Status Register (IPSR):
AC = 0 MFL= 1 MFH= 0 IC = 1 I = 1 DT = 1
DFL= 0 DFH= 0 RT = 1 CPL= 0 IT = 1 MC = 0 RI = 1
Interrupt Status Register (ISR):
Code 00000000 X = 0 W = 0 R = 0 NA = 0 SP = 0
RS = 0 IR = 0 NI = 0 SO = 0 EI = 1 ED = 0

Branch Registers: Region Registers:
B0 00000000.20280C60 RR0 * 00000000.00000034
B1 80000000.FFE073D0 RR1 * 00000000.00000030
B2 00000000.00000000 RR2 * 00000000.00000030
B3 00000000.00000000 RR3 * 00000000.00000030
B4 00000000.00000000 RR4 * 00000000.00000030
B5 00000000.00000000 RR5 * 00000000.00000030
B6 00000000.20297140 RR6 * 00000000.00000030
B7 00000000.20337890 RR7 * 00000000.00000334

Floating Point Registers: FPSR 0009804C.8270033F
F6 00000000.0001003E.00000000.000001FC
F7 00000000.0001003E.00000000.000000FE
F8 00000000.0001003E.00000000.00000002
F9 00000000.0001003E.00000000.00000008
F10 00000000.0000FFFF.80000000.00000000
F11 00000000.0000FFFC.80000000.00000000

Miscellaneous Registers:
Processor Identifier (CPUID 0,1) GenuineIntel
(CPUID 3) 00000000.1F010504
Interrupt Priority Level (IPL) 0000001F
Stack Align 000002D0
NaT Mask 003C
PPrev Mode 00
Previous Stack 00
Interrupt Depth 00
Preds 80000000.FF5FF29B
Nats 00000000.00000000
Context 80000000.FF58F293

General Registers:
R0 00000000.00000000 GP 00000000.20660000 R2 00000000.00000000
R3 00000000.202266B0 R4 00000000.FFDC5C30 R5 00000000.00000004
R6 00000000.00000000 R7 80000000.FED00000 R8 00000000.007281B4
R9 00000000.000000FE R10 00000000.00000304 R11 00000000.00000000
SP 00000000.20225FA8 TP 00000000.0000040A R14 00000000.20101648
R15 00000000.20226438 R16 00000000.00000000 R17 00000000.00000000
R18 00000000.00000000 R19 00000000.00000000 R20 00000000.00000000
R21 00000000.00000000 R22 00000000.00000000 R23 00000000.00000007
R24 00000000.20230500 R25 00000000.00000000 R26 00000000.20230200
R27 00000000.000000FF R28 00000000.20226458 R29 00000000.00000000
R30 00000000.20296670 R31 00000000.00000000

Interrupted Frame RSE Backing Store , Size = 2 registers

00000000.20216A58: 00000000.00000590 (R32)
00000000.20216A60: 00000000.20280BC0 (R33)

******************************************
* Using INIBRK to get help from Xdelta! *
******************************************
Brk 0 at 203472B1

203472B1! break.i 080003
203472B2! nop.i 000000
___________________________________________

Thanks for your Help

[Hoff]

Last guess (for now): try burning and using DVD+R or DVD+RW media. Probably won't help, but...

Can you post up the I/O and storage configuration reported by EFI?

[Steven Schweda]

> [...+R...] Probably won't help, but...

That'd be my guess. My home-made DVD copies
are "-R", and I'm happy as a bivalve.

If nothing else works, I suppose that we
could arrange to extract the problem disc
contents, and ship them back to me for
verification. I'd try as much else as I
could before resorting to that, however.

[brendanh]

Hoff:-
Don't have any DVD+R or DVD+RW.
I might also try burn at a lot lower speed.

I can try and get a +R or something on Monday.

Steven Schweda:-
Lets leave that well alone unless we 100% need to, save us both a lot of time.
I'd also wait until I've got my SCSI card, not that I have an IDE disk plugged in but you never know
Do appreciate the effort.

I'd like to see also how my friend goes with his zx2000. Incase we've got an odd machine fault.

Thank you all,

System info :-
___________________________________________

Shell> info all


SYSTEM INFORMATION

Date/Time: Apr 14, 2008 13:46:20 (20:08:04:14:13:46:20)
Manufacturer: hp
Product Name: workstation zx2000
Product Number: A9663A
Serial Number: SG35008071
UUID: 0B7A65C2-49C2-11D8-BEC0-EB908797D760
System Bus Frequency: 200 MHz

PROCESSOR MODULE INFORMATION

# of L3 L4 Family/
CPU Logical Cache Cache Model Processor
Slot CPUs Speed Size Size (hex.) Rev State
---- ------- -------- ------ ------ ------- --- ------------
0 1 1 GHz 1.5 MB None 1F/01 B1 Active



MEMORY INFORMATION

---- DIMM A ----- ---- DIMM B -----
DIMM Current DIMM Current
--- ------ ---------- ------ ----------
0 1024MB Active 1024MB Active
1 1024MB Active 1024MB Active

Active Memory : 4096 MB
Installed Memory : 4096 MB


I/O INFORMATION


BOOTABLE DEVICES

Order Media Type Path
----- ---------- ---------------------------------------
1 HARDDRIVE Acpi(HWP0002,500)/Pci(2|0)/Ata(Primary,Master)/HD(Part1,Sig7A)




Seg Bus Dev Fnc Vendor Device Slot
# # # # ID ID # Path
--- --- --- --- ------ ------ --- -----------
00 A0 01 00 0x1033 0x0035 XX Acpi(HWP0002,500)/Pci(1|0)
00 A0 01 01 0x1033 0x0035 XX Acpi(HWP0002,500)/Pci(1|1)
00 A0 01 02 0x1033 0x00E0 XX Acpi(HWP0002,500)/Pci(1|2)
00 A0 02 00 0x1095 0x0649 XX Acpi(HWP0002,500)/Pci(2|0)
00 A0 03 00 0x8086 0x100E XX Acpi(HWP0002,500)/Pci(3|0)
00 A0 04 00 0x1319 0x0801 XX Acpi(HWP0002,500)/Pci(4|0)
00 A0 04 01 0x1319 0x0802 XX Acpi(HWP0002,500)/Pci(4|1)



BOOT INFORMATION

Monarch CPU:

Current Preferred
Monarch Monarch Possible Warnings
------- --------- -----------------
0 0

AutoBoot: ON - Timeout is : 7 sec

Boottest:

BOOTTEST Settings Default Variable

OS is not speedy boot aware.

Selftest Setting
--------- --------------
early_cpu Run this test
late_cpu Run this test
platform Run this test
chipset Run this test
io_hw Run this test
mem_init Run this test
mem_test Run this test

LAN Address Information:

LAN Address Path
----------------- ----------------------------------------
*Mac(00306E38FA28) Acpi(HWP0002,500)/Pci(3|0)/Mac(00306E38FA28))



FIRMWARE INFORMATION

Firmware Revision: 2.31 [4411]

PAL_A Revision: 7.31/5.37
PAL_B Revision: 5.65

SAL Spec Revision: 3.01
SAL_A Revision: 2.00
SAL_B Revision: 2.31

EFI Spec Revision: 1.10
EFI Intel Drop Revision: 14.61
EFI Build Revision: 1.22

POSSE Revision: 0.10

ACPI Revision: 7.00

BMC Revision 1.52
IPMI Revision: 1.00
SMBIOS Revision: 2.3.2a
Management Processor Revision:


WARNING AND STOP BOOT INFORMATION


CHIP REVISION INFORMATION

Chip Logical Device Chip
Type ID ID Revision
------------------- ------- ------ --------
Memory Controller 0 122b 0023
Root Bridge 0 1229 0023
Host Bridge 0000 122e 0032
Host Bridge 0004 122e 0032
Host Bridge 0005 122e 0032
Host Bridge 0006 122e 0032
Other Bridge 0 0 0002
Other Bridge 0 0 0007
Baseboard MC 0 0 0152
____________________________________________

[Hoff]

"That'd be my guess. My home-made DVD copies
are "-R", and I'm happy as a bivalve."

Yes, but the drive itself also plays a key part here. And the DVD-R command set is different from the DVD+R command set. And different drives can and do have differing implementations.

[Khairy]

hi guys,

i may have an idea here on whats going on but it may not related.

I've experience almost the same problem with AlphaServer DS10 last month after made a burn copy of openvms CD.

It turn out to be the software I used (sonic-recordnow) will copy openvms original cd to 'gi' images/format.

Burned this image to blank CD and boot it in DS10 but it keeps on failing with weird messages. Unfortunately, i don't have the errors anymore.

My solutions was to copy back the original cd into iso image and copy it to blank CD. It works perfectly fine.

Rgds

[brendanh]

All,

Install on hold.
zx2000 blew up last night.
flashing green light no beeps
errors with"
00000055 - BMC No activ CPU 00-07:6F:04 (Rel) 00 00:08:42"

I've asked the seller to send me another one.
I am hoping that my odd DQ errors are from a faulty machine.

Thanks

[brendanh]

ok.
I now have an LSI 1030 SCSI card.
I've also got a HP SCSI DVD-ROM drive
My DVD-Rom is detected by the EFI

Install now hangs no more DQ errors!

i do the following :-
fso:
\efi\vms\vms_loader.efi -flags 0,7

this gets me :-
SYSBOOT>
I then type "continue"
It then gives me the below error:-

___________________________________

SYSBOOT> continue


HP OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 Operating System, Version V8.3-1H1
© Copyright 1976-2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.


Brk 0 at 80000310

80000310! break.m 080003
80000311! nop.f 000000
___________________________________

I am not sure where to go now.

Thanks

[Ian Miller.]

Your use of bootflags 7 has lead to the system
Stopping at the initial system (XDELTA) breakpoint.

See http://64.223.189.234/node/433

Why not boot like you did before
fs0:\> \EFI\VMS\vms_loader.efi -flags 30000,0

[brendanh]

Ian Miller:-

I originally tried that command
"fs0:\>
\EFI\VMS\vms_loader.efi -flags 30000,0"

Gets me the following outcome :-

___________________________________________
HP OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 Operating System, Version V8.3-1H1
à © Copyright 1976-2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
____________________________________________

Nothing more, DVD-ROm stops spinning and nothing happens no matter how long I leave it

Thanks

[Steven Schweda]

> I originally tried that command
> "fs0:\>
> \EFI\VMS\vms_loader.efi -flags 30000,0"

Did you try it with the default flags (that
is, none) since the great hardware
revolution?

[brendanh]

Steven Schweda:-
Yep. Was the first command i tried. Got all excited when i saw the VMS banner! Then it stopped..

I've also run all of the HP off line diag check's from the boot cd all passed.

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] Then it stopped..

That _is_ the symptom when the DVD-ROM is on
the (right-looking but) wrong cable.

[brendanh]

Its a SCSI DVD ROM.
A HP SCSI DVD-Rom.
I can't find any doco on if the zx2000 is picky for SCSI ID's
I've tried 512/2048 block size to.

THanks
Brendan

[Steven Schweda]

> Its a SCSI DVD ROM.

I can read, honest. I must have fallen
asleep at "HP". Around here (after I yanked
a hard disk drive and stuck in a Sun-approved
Toshiba DVD-ROM drive at ID=6):

Shell> devices
[...]
19 D X X 1 1 - LSI Logic Ultra160 SCSI Controller
48 D X X 1 1 - HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8160B
[...]
4B B - - 1 2 1 Acpi(HWP0002,600)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)
[...]

Shell> map
Device mapping table
fs0 : Acpi(HWP0002,600)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig4C883571-C59B-11
DC-BA20-AA000400FEFF)
fs1 : Acpi(HWP0002,600)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)/HD(Part4,Sig4C883570-C59B-11
DC-BA21-AA000400FEFF)
fs2 : Acpi(HWP0002,600)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig7AA08C95)
[...]


Shell> fs2:

fs2:\> \efi\vms\vms_loader.efi


HP OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 Operating System, Version V8.3-1H1
© Copyright 1976-2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

%PKA0, Copyright (c) 1998 LSI Logic PKW V3.2.20 ROM 4.19
%PKA0, SCSI Chip is SYM53C1010/66, Operating mode is SE Ultra SCSI

Installing required known files...

Configuring devices...

%EIA0, Link up: 100 mbit, full duplex, flow control (receive only)

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You can install or upgrade the OpenVMS I64 operating system
or you can install or upgrade layered products that are included
on the OpenVMS I64 distribution media (CD/DVD).
[...]

$$$ show devi /full DKA600:

Disk DKA600:, device type TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1711, is online, mounted, [...]


That's with the 512-byte-block jumper
installed.

Similar results navigating down through:

Boot Option Maintenance Menu
Boot from a File
080_3_1H1 [Acpi(HWP0002,600)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part1,S


You must live wrong.

[Hoff]

I'd swap the SCSI DVD-ROM drive for an IDE DVD-ROM or DVD+R/RW drive, as a test.

There are comparatively few SCSI DVD devices around, and my experience with them has been somewhat mixed. (SCSI CD and CD-R/RW drives worked OK, though.) Drives built from SCSI to IDE adapters can also have mixed results.

[brendanh]

Hoff:-
All my IDE DVD Roms give me the "DQ medium not ready" error.

Also tried DVD+R and DVD-R

I think that my zx2000 is not healthy.
Although Linux,HP-UX and win2003 work fine and it passes all off line diag checks.

I don't understand why every other OS works!

Thanks
Brendan