[HECnet] Mulita issue

[Dan B]

ok, today i fired up the multia, a zillion issues, message "isa table
corrupted," the ide disk comes and goes and so the floppy, (my suspect
is that they are related to the isa bus corruption message,) the time
clock battery is dead, (hopefully it may recharge if I leave it
plugged in.)

"however" after long pains to remember various settings, changing at
least 6 scsi cables, trying a few terminators (active by the way,) it
finally booted vms 7.3 and tru64 5.1, but not red hat, linux is a
nightmare because the devices names change in the order cabled ;-(

on red hat I get a kernel panic, my suspicion is that it is missing
something from the ide disk related to the first error, and I'm not
going to try arc again, because I'm not feeling in the mood of the
hardware fixes to reset it

the more time is powered in and the better it goes, now boots on
graphics directly and remembers the settings ;-) it was the same with
the vax, they look dead, but you leave them plugged in for a while and
they resurrect, sooner or later

anyhow, this is the situation now, if anybody knows how to fix the isa
table corrupted, i can use suggestions

cheers,
daniel
;-)

On 2/10/13, 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