hi,

i have a vaxstation3100 (it says model number "VS42A-BC" on the back)
which is doing some odd things with regards to its disks. it has a pair of
100mb RZ23 disks on seperate controllers. the problem is that the built in
BIOS seems to think that each disk exists on every SCSI ID of its
controller. the cut-n-pasted boot bit below shows the result of "show dev"
which illustrates the problem. iirc, dka100 and dkb100 should be there and
nothing else. is this a hardware problem, or something being a bit special
in the BIOS? (do they call it a BIOS in the vax? if not, apologies for
using the wrong terminology). any ideas? it would be nice to mend this so
i can get NetBSD installed on the disks - NFS root is painfully slow.

thanks in advance,
paul everett

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KA42-A  V1.3

F...E...D...C...B...A...9...8...7...6...5...4...3_..2_..1...


 ?  C  0080  0000.4001


 83 BOOT SYS
?41 DEVASSIGN, BLAH
 84 FAIL
>>> show dev
 VMS/VMB  ULTRIX    ADDR    DEVTYP  NUMBYTES  RM/FX  WP  DEVNAM  REV
 -------  ------  --------  ------  --------  -----  --  ------  ---
 ESA0     SE0     08-00-2B-13-AE-3E

 DKA0     RZ0     A/0/0/00  DISK      104 MB   FX        RZ23   0A18
 DKA100   RZ1     A/1/0/00  DISK      104 MB   FX        RZ23   0A18
 DKA200   RZ2     A/2/0/00  DISK      104 MB   FX        RZ23   0A18
 DKA300   RZ3     A/3/0/00  DISK      104 MB   FX        RZ23   0A18
 DKA400   RZ4     A/4/0/00  DISK      104 MB   FX        RZ23   0A18
 DKA500   RZ5     A/5/0/00  DISK      104 MB   FX        RZ23   0A18
 DKA600   RZ6     A/6/0/00  DISK      104 MB   FX        RZ23   0A18
 ...HostID....    A/7       INITR

 DKB0     RZ8     B/0/0/00  DISK      104 MB   FX        RZ23   0A18
 DKB100   RZ9     B/1/0/00  DISK      104 MB   FX        RZ23   0A18
 DKB200   RZ10    B/2/0/00  DISK      104 MB   FX        RZ23   0A18
 DKB300   RZ11    B/3/0/00  DISK      104 MB   FX        RZ23   0A18
 DKB400   RZ12    B/4/0/00  DISK      104 MB   FX        RZ23   0A18
 DKB500   RZ13    B/5/0/00  DISK      104 MB   FX        RZ23   0A18
 DKB600   RZ14    B/6/0/00  DISK      104 MB   FX        RZ23   0A18
 ...HostID....    B/7       INITR

>>> 
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