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AlphaStation 500/333 SCSI device not showing up |
tortle
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| Posted on January 08 2020 08:25 |
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I recently replaced the power supply in my AlphaStation 500/333. After I reconnected everything, my boot drive (which resides at DKA200) no longer shows up in "show device", and will not boot. This happens even if I disconnect all other SCSI devices. I've checked the connections several times. All other SCSI devices (internal and external) show up fine (when connected). Could I be missing something? Any advice would be very much appreciated. |
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RE: AlphaStation 500/333 SCSI device not showing up |
Bruce Claremont
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| Posted on January 09 2020 02:22 |
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Does the drive power up?
Have you tried it in a different position? |
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RE: AlphaStation 500/333 SCSI device not showing up |
tortle
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| Posted on January 09 2020 04:47 |
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Thank you for your reply. Yes and yes. Have tried every SCSI iteration I can think of, with or without other devices. The green light on the drive lights up and it spins up when I power the station on.
Even if the drive somehow failed (it was working fine before the power supply replacement), would it not still show up in ‘show device’?
I don't know if this is relevant, but I get the following error message at the top of the screen immediately upon startup:
ea.e9.e8.e7.e6 invalid mode
I'm not sure if that came up before the power supply was replaced, but it's the only error message I'm getting (apart from "failed to open dka200" when I try to boot).
Edited by tortle on January 09 2020 08:28 |
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Bruce Claremont
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| Posted on January 10 2020 02:16 |
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My only other suggestion is to try a different known good drive in that location and see if it shows up. If it does, then the fault lies with the disk drive. If it does not, then the fault is in the controller or cable.
Time to switch to FreeAXP. |
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RE: AlphaStation 500/333 SCSI device not showing up |
tortle
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| Posted on January 10 2020 06:09 |
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Thank you for your help. I have tried a replacement drive which I believe is good, and it will show up in ‘show devices’ at certain addresses (like dka400) but then disappear after a minute or so.
I would absolutely consider switching to FreeAXP, but I wonder how I would get the data on our other two drives over to the emulator without a working system drive. |
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RE: AlphaStation 500/333 SCSI device not showing up |
Bruce Claremont
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| Posted on January 11 2020 02:23 |
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Move the system drive to a working position and boot from there. |
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RE: AlphaStation 500/333 SCSI device not showing up |
tortle
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| Posted on January 28 2020 11:25 |
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Bruce Claremont wrote:
My only other suggestion is to try a different known good drive in that location and see if it shows up. If it does, then the fault lies with the disk drive. If it does not, then the fault is in the controller or cable.
Time to switch to FreeAXP.
Thank you for your help, Bruce. I followed your suggestion, and every known working drive I've installed (internally and externally) works at various SCSI addresses.
However, I have now tried 3 different QUANTUM ATLAS II 4.5 GB drives to try and replace my failed system drive (the default leftmost internal drive that comes with this AlphaStation 500, below the floppy drive), and not one of them shows up in "show dev", under any SCSI address, even when it's the only SCSI device attached.
I can't for the life of me figure out why all the other smaller drives show up fine, but the 4.5 GB ATLAS drives do not. Is it feasible that larger drives would suddenly not be visible on the SCSI bus? |
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Bruce Claremont
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| Posted on January 29 2020 01:28 |
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I don't know why a drive would suddenly be invisible based on size and position. However, the system drive can reside in any position. Use "set bootdef_dev" to change the default boot device. |
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RE: AlphaStation 500/333 SCSI device not showing up |
tortle
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| Posted on January 29 2020 08:43 |
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Bruce Claremont wrote:
I don't know why a drive would suddenly be invisible based on size and position. However, the system drive can reside in any position. Use "set bootdef_dev" to change the default boot device.
That's just it. The Atlas 4.5GB drives don't show up in ANY position/SCSI address.
I have an external 4.0 GB drive which shows up fine (when connected either externally or internally), so I suppose I could order another one just like it to replace the system drive, but I'm baffled as to why none of the Atlas drives (original or replacement) are showing up at all. It is making me think that my system drive may not be faulty at all, which would save me the hassle of reinstalling the OS from scratch. |
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Bruce Claremont
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| Posted on January 30 2020 00:41 |
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If the drive's don't show up anywhere, it is a hardware compatibility issue. You are running an old system. It is likely the firmware does not recognize the hardware. |
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RE: AlphaStation 500/333 SCSI device not showing up |
tortle
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| Posted on January 30 2020 11:11 |
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Update:
I am now able to get the original system disk to show up by putting a jumper on “enable narrow mode†(pins 23 + 24 on the J3 connector). It will now start to boot, but freeze (with no error messages) shortly after jumping to bootstrap code. So I’m guessing that I need to tweak the jumper settings further, and I’m trying to do that now, via trial and error.
It's odd, as I'm fairly certain that the disk did NOT have a jumper at that position before I changed the power supply, but I suppose it's possible that the jumper could have fallen off in the shuffle.
Thanks again for your help. |
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