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From: jar@konkord.uucp (John Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: VAX 11/730 R80 Problems
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.212602.5815@uunet!konkord>
Date: 25 Sep 90 21:26:02 GMT
Sender: jar@uunet!konkord (John Roberts)
Organization: Concord Communications
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	Here's my Vax question for today,

	We have a 730 at school with a R80 drive. When we tried to
	load VMS on it, Standalone backup would come back with
	'FATAL CONTROLLER ERROR!'. So, being a smart person, I went
	out and found the first R80/RL02 (there on the same board)
	I could find. I put the new controller in the 730 and was
	ready for it to load vms. No such luck. Same problem. I then
	checked all the cables going to and from the R80, (yes, I
	'ohmed' each 50+ pin cable. What else is there to do at school?)

	Nothing wrong with the cables. I then got my hands on a R80
	diag book from DEC. I ran ALL the tests on the R80 (the R80
	has self diags like the RA series). ALL the tests passes.

	I then tried to load VMS on RL02 (yes, I know, RL02 are only 10meg)
	But it did load VMS (for the first 10 meg at least).

	So, as you can imagine, I am very confused. WHAT COULD BE THE
	PROBLEM????

	Any help would be great! Thank!!!!



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