Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!olivea!mintaka!bloom-beacon!news.mit.edu!jtkohl From: jtkohl@MIT.EDU (John T Kohl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: TK50 trashes internal RZ23 on DS3100 Message-ID: Date: 9 Nov 90 16:31:39 GMT Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: MIT Project Athena Lines: 25 I have a DS3100 on my desk, with the following normal configuration: Ultrix/RISC 3.1 16M memory SCSI #0: external RZ55 SCSI #3: internal RZ23 (root partition) SCSI #4: external RZ55 Two days ago I hooked up an external SCSI TK50 drive, at SCSI #5. After doing so, my root partition was immediately trashed. Removing the tape drive allowed me to reconstruct the partition; I then put the tape drive back on the system, and the drive was trashed again. This is with the "new" roms (i.e. the ones that don't give you the full text description of the test command & arguments). One co-worker here reports similar problems with an Exabyte drive interfering with his internal RZ23, and that when he accessed said RZ23, the Exabyte would occasionally make noises as if it were being accessed. Anybody else heard of such a problem/know a solution? -- John Kohl or Digital Equipment Corporation/Project Athena (The above opinions are MINE. Don't put my words in somebody else's mouth!)