Re: Entire RAID set non-reporting -- MIDRANGE-L

A600 5090 says you have cfg'd drives that are not reporting in, but you know
that. I have seen where "2" or more drives in a set fail and you get this error.
I would unplug 1 drive of the 8 and try a manual IPL. Work your way through all
8 or until the symptom changes. My reasoning is that if a drive is holding the
buss up some how then removing that drive may isolate the problem.

Douglas Handy wrote:
> 
> I was gone from my office for 9 days doing a CISC to RISC migration which went
> beautifully -- jobs that used to take hours now literally take minutes.  It's
> great.  Plus now I get to code to V4R5 features instead of V3R2, and get to 
>take
> advantage of all that great stuff Hans and Company have been adding to RPG.
> 
> But returning to my home office, my personal 40S does not want to IPL 
>normally.
> I typically leave it running 24/7, but turned it off since I was going to be
> gone so long.  It was last shut off in October, when I was gone for over 2
> weeks.
> 
> My 40S-2109 has ten 6606 drives -- two mirrored on the MFIOP for the load
> source, and eight in a RAID set attached to a 6502 controller in a 7117
> expansion chassis.  All are in ASP 1.  It is running V4R3, although I had been
> planning to install V4R5 today.  Guess that will have to wait for now...
> 
> An IPL set to B N results in the attention light with the following SRC's:
> 
>  11-3  A600 5090
>  12-3  09B0 0160
>  13-3  0020 0000
>  14-3  0000 0150
>  15-3  0300 FFFF
>  16-3  6606 5074
>  17-3  0000 A0C6
>  18-3  0008 0000
> 
> My V4 Service Functions manual (SY44-5902) gives me most, but not all, of the
> explanation of these codes.  In particular, it does not tell me what the 5090
> unit reference code means in the A600 xxxx LIC interruption SRC.  Nor does it
> tell me what "cause code" 0020 means in function 13-3.
> 
> Function 14-3 flags 0150 point to my 6502 card and the eight 6606 drives on 
>it.
> I am less sure of function 15-3's unit address of 0300.  If that is the drive
> DST reports at I/O bus 0, controller 3, device 0 then it would be storage unit
> location 12 and the third of the eight drives non-reporting.  The serial 
>number
> A0C6 in function 17-3 doesn't seem to match anything or at least not in the 
>6502
> controller and the 6606 drives.
> 
> A manual IPL stops at IPL step C600 4008 (during sys config testing) and puts 
>up
> a display on the console reporting some disks as missing.  Displaying the 
>detail
> shows all 8 drives in the expansion unit as missing.
> 
> I wouldn't suspect 8 drives to exhibit the infamous 6606 "stiction" problem at
> the exact same time, and not the other two attached to the MFIOP.  So my
> inclination is to suspect the 6502 controller or the expansion feature power
> supply.  But I'm measuring 12.24 and 5.04 vots on the power leads, and DST 
>shows
> the status of the 6502 as "Operational".
> 
> With the covers off so I can listen closer, I can hear when the first two 
>drives
> on the MFIOP are powered up sequentially.  But then I don't even hear it 
>trying
> to start the other 8 drives in turn.  Also, tapping lightly on the drives 
>during
> this time when I'd expect them to spin up seems to not have on effect either.
> 
> I don't have a spare 65x2 controller laying around to try swapping it out even
> though it reports as operational under DST.  How do I narrow this down more?
> 
> TIA,
> Doug
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