[HECnet] Mulita issue

[Michael Holmes]

Found the hidden culprit.... The hard drive started making noises that I normally hear from a blender. 

The multia booted fine when I set it to mop boot without any local disk (slow but worked). 

So next weekend I'll remove (or replace )the drive and do the fan upgrade everyone recommends. 

Anyone know of any possible replacement scsi drives for multia's???

Mike


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On Feb 10, 2013, at 8:39 PM, "Dan B" <dibi58 at gmail.com> wrote:

keep it in a cold place, the number one cause of death for multia is
processor overheating, it does not suffer cold, but fries processors
in the heat


On 2/10/13, Michael Holmes <mholmes10 at hotmail.com> wrote:
Oh gee what a picky machine....
It wasn't lighting up the flat panel monitor from SRM console.
Switched it to the same old CRT monitor I use with the DEC 3000 (only
monitor with RGB inputs)
and its displaying...

Damn thing is ACTUALLY booting off its little disk that I installed vms on
directly via the DEC 3000.

Now just have to convo boot the damn thing to fix its HOME server for system
disks (node name and addresses changed when I connected to HECnet).

wish me luck...



Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:42:08 +0200
From: uusimaki at exdecfinland.org
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Mulita issue


Are you sure that nothing has changed on your setup since you booted the
Multia successfully?
Any parameter? Anything of the HW?



On 10.2.2013 21:01, Michael Holmes wrote:
Yes I hooked up the vms install CDROM to the multia to boot and used the
boot procedure with floppy and it pretty much stalls after the "starting
bootstrap ..."message.

took the HD from the dec3000 with the image of the vms install disk and
tried to boot from it with same results.

Bought a new (and expensive) floppy for it and same results.

Can flip to ARC and SRM consoles ok (not tried to boot under arc as I
don't have win nt.)

---------
Just booted back up and it was at ARC console so I switched it over to
SRM and power cycled it and now it's not powering the monitor.
Will have to find my serial cable and try to switch it.


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On Feb 10, 2013, at 4:06 AM, "Kari Uusim  ki" <uusimaki at exdecfinland.org>
wrote:


Do you have any chance to test booting from a directly connected SCSI
CD-ROM or a disk?


Kari



On 10.2.2013 0:58, Michael Holmes wrote:


Forgive me if this is off topic, but I was reading about the fixes to
the VAXStation 4000 regarding chips.

I bought a multia several years back and I think it sucommed to being
moved to and from Germany and the States too many times.

I had it booting as a satelite off a DEC 3000 just fine, until this
last
move.

I thought the battery had died and replaced it. (dead battery
prevents
the bios from coming up)

I get the SRM console and i'd get MOP load message on the DEC 3000
but
the MULTIA just hangs after message about bootstrapping.

I heard something about an I/O chip that can go bad on the MB and was
wondering if anyone had any ideas that could be used to fix the
MULTIA.

thanks

Mike