Thanks,Chuck, sounds like there's hope!

> My experience with Qbus VAXen is that the TK70 lights blink/extinguish
> cycle is a motion error on the tape. That occurred when the TK70 thought

Just to be clear: do you speak of the lights on the TK70 DRIVE
or on the TKQ70 BOAD? The lights that blink at my machine are on
the board, not the drive (well, the drive's lights flicker every
now and then.)

Thanks! Will try cleaning and swapping hardware tonight.

-Gunther

PS:

> Probably the simplest solution for you would be to have another VAX running
> VMS and then cluster in the 6000. That way you could boot VMS from the
> cluster partner, use the partners media etc. That requires only that the
> ethernet, CPU, and memory are working on a Qbus VAX, I don't know about a 6000.

At this time I'm ready to go with whatever I can boot. Even VMS.
So, yes, when I can't get the Ultrix up and if the netbooting is
more of a hassle, I'll try booting from my VMS 9-track just to
check the system.



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