From: bleau@umdsp.umd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.dec,vmsnet.misc
Subject: Tahiti trouble
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:24:02 GMT
Reply-To: bleau@umdsp.umd.edu
Organization: University of Maryland Physics Dept.

Hi, computeers.  How many have used the new Tahiti-II optical disk drive from
MaxOptix?  It handles rewritable optical disks, and has two modes: 600MB ISO
and 1GB ZCAV.  We bought one for a VAXstation 4000 model 90, and are having
some trouble configuring it properly.

I connected the Tahiti-II drive to the 2nd SCSI bus (via TURBOchannel card) on
the VS4000-90, and when I turned it on (the >>> comsole prompt) and did a SHOW
CONFIG it didn't sho the Tahiti-II drive at all.  The SCSI cable is less than
16'.  The devices on it are a Fujitsu 1.0GB disk, and a Fujitsu 1.7GB disk. 
Any idea why it wouldn't show up?

Just in case length was a problem, though, I moved the Tahiti-II drive to the
1st (main) SCSI bus.  Now a SHOW CONFIG displays the device at the correct SCSI
ID.  Currently on that SCSI bus I have the internal RZ25 (RZ26?), an RRD40, an
external Exabyte 8500, and the Tahiti-II, in that order.  All other devices on
that bus (and the 2nd bus) work fine.  There were no self-test errors reported. 
When I boot VMS the drive shows up as DKA0:, which is fine.  The problem here
is that when I do a MOUNT on it, I get the message "fatal drive error".  The
error counts goes to 1, but never increases, even after subsequent failed
attempts to MOUNT.  I tried MOUNT /FOREIGN, also.

I examined the error log (there's only one entry for this), and it has an error
type of "invalid mode sense data returned", port status of "normal successful
completion", SCSI command of "mode sense", SCSI status of "good".  I've
included the full entry below in case anyone can make any more "sense" out of
it. 

I have the internal jumpers onthe Tahiti-II drive set to SCSI ID 0 and report
device type as direct access.  The other setting for that jumper is to report
as optical media, which I don't think VMS handles yet; either way it is set
shouldn't affect operation, just device type reported.  There is one more
jumper, which is to be inserted for MicroVAX II operation.  I've tried it both
ways with the same result.

This drive did work once on a MicroVAX II with a CMD-220 SCSI adapter.  After
some initial configuration problems it worked quite nicely.  I've run out of
ideas of what to try next; so has MaxOptix, btw.  If anyone can shed some light
I'd be grateful.  Thanks.

Lawrence Bleau
University of Maryland
bleau@umdsp.umd.edu
301-405-6223

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 DATE/TIME 21-JAN-1993 15:43:05.59                            SYS_TYPE 04010002
 SYSTEM UPTIME: 0 DAYS 01:05:53
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       HW REVISION     342E3741
                                       HW REVISION = A7.4
       ERROR TYPE            06
                                       INVALID MODE SENSE DATA RETURNED
       SCSI ID               00
                                       SCSI ID = 0.
       SCSI LUN              00
                                       SCSI LUN = 0.
       SCSI SUBLUN           00
                                       SCSI SUBLUN = 0.
       PORT STATUS     00000001
                                       %SYSTEM-S-NORMAL, NORMAL SUCCESSFUL
                                        COMPLETION
       SCSI CMD        003F001A
                           0096
                                       MODE SENSE
       SCSI STATUS           00
                                       GOOD

 MODE SENSE DATA

       MEDIUM TYPE           00
                                       DEFAULT MEDIUM TYPE
       FLAGS                 00
                                       WRITE ENABLED
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                       00020000
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                                       _BLOCK LENGTH = 512.

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                       00000000
                       00000003
                                       PAGE CODE = 01(X)
                                       ERROR RECOVERY PARAMETERS
                                       _ENABLE EARLY CORRECTION
                                       _ENABLE AUTOMATIC WRITE REALLOC
                                       _RETRY CNT = 8.
                                       _CORRECTION SPAN = 0.
                                       _HEAD OFFSET CNT = 0.
                                       _DATA STROBE OFFSET CNT = 0.
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       PAGE DESC 2.    80020A82

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                       00000000
                       00000000
                                       PAGE CODE = 02(X)
                                       DISCONNECT/RECONNECT CONTROL PARAMS
                                       _BUFFER FULL RATIO = 2.
                                       _BUFFER EMPTY RATIO = 128.
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                                       _DISCONNECT TIME LIMIT = 0. USEC
                                       _CONNECT TIME LIMIT = 0. USEC

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                       00000008
                       1F000000
                       01006202
                       00000000
                       00000060
                                       PAGE CODE = 03(X)
                                       DIRECT ACCESS DEVICE FORMAT PARAMS
                                       _18745. TRACKS/ZONE
                                       _2048. ALTERNATE SECTORS/ZONE
                                       _0. ALTERNATE TRACKS/ZONE
                                       _0. ALTERNATE TRACKS/VOL
                                       _31. SECTORS/TRACK
                                       _610. DATA BYTES/PHYS SECTOR
                                       _1. INTERLEAVE
                                       _TRACK SKEW FACTOR = 0.
                                       _CYLINDER SKEW FACTOR = 0.
                                       _REMOVABLE
                                       _HARD SECTOR

       PAGE DESC 4.    49001204
                       00000139
                       00000000
                       00000000
                       00000000
                                       PAGE CODE = 04(X)
                                       RIGID DISK DRIVE GEOMETRY PARAMS
                                       _NUMBER OF CYLINDERS = 18745.
                                       _NUMBER OF HEADS = 1.
                                       _START CYL WRITE PRECOMP = 0.
                                       _START CYL REDUCE WRITE CURR = 0.
                                       _DRIVE STEP RATE = 0.
                                       _LANDING ZONE CYL = 0.

       PAGE DESC 5.    00000A88
                       73018000
                       73017301
                                       PAGE CODE = 08(X)
                                       RESERVED

       PAGE DESC 6.    00000B2A
                       E7D50801
                       1F000800
                             00
                                       PAGE CODE = 2A(X)
                                       VENDOR UNIQUE PAGE FORMATS

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       PAGE DESC 7.      8001BC
                                       PAGE CODE = 3C(X)
                                       VENDOR UNIQUE PAGE FORMATS

       PAGE DESC 8.    00000280
                                       PAGE CODE = 00(X)
                                       VENDOR UNIQUE PAGE CODE
       UCB$B_ERTCNT          01
                                       1. RETRIES REMAINING
       UCB$B_ERTMAX          00
                                       0. RETRIES ALLOWABLE
       ORB$L_OWNER     00000000
                                       OWNER UIC [000,000]
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                                       DIRECTORY STRUCTURED
                                       FILE ORIENTED
                                       SHARABLE
                                       AVAILABLE
                                       ERROR LOGGING
                                       ALLOCATED
                                       CAPABLE OF INPUT
                                       CAPABLE OF OUTPUT
                                       RANDOM ACCESS
       UCB$W_STS           0000
       UCB$L_OPCNT     00000000
                                       0. QIO'S THIS UNIT
       UCB$W_ERRCNT        0001
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