Subject: Re: KFQSA in Vax 4000/500 - I'm going to make a HOWTO
To: Douglas Meade <inforum@umd5.umd.edu>
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/21/2002 01:11:32
Change the plug on the 4000/500 bulkhead that sets the target ID for the 
4000 to be "6" instead of "7" and you will see the KFQSA show up and the 
KFQSA will see your drives.
--Chuck

At 07:43 PM 5/20/02 -0400, you wrote:
>This is mainly a question for Chuck McManis, or Michael Kukat,
>but feel free to chime in.
>
>I've finally scrounged up the cable I knew I had in the Vax Shed
>somewhere that connects the KFQSA to a faceplate, and the big thick
>50-pin cable that connects the faceplate to another DSSI connector
>(such as on the front of the CPU plate).  I've tried to follow the
>hints given by Michael and Chuck in earlier posts to this list,
>but I'm not successful.
>
>I installed the KFQSA in the card cage, installed the patch panel,
>connected the cable from the patch panel to the "Bus 0" connector
>on the patch panel for the CPU, crossed my fingers and turned on
>the machine.  Doing a 'SHOW DEV' yields:
>
>DSSI Bus 0 Node 4 (WOOLY)
>   DIA0 (RF73)
>DSSI Bus 0 Node 5 (SARTORIS)
>   DIA1 (RF73)
>DSSI Bus 0 Node 6 (CLOPPER)
>   DIA3 (RF73)
>DSSI Bus 0 Node 7 (*)
>DSSI Bus 1 Node 7 (*)
>
>UQSSP Disk Controller 0 (772150)
>  -?
>UQSSP Disk Controller 1 (760334)
>  -?
>UQSSP Disk Controller 2 (760340)
>  -?
>UQSSP Disk Controller 3 (760344)
>  -?
>UQSSP Disk Controller 4 (760350)
>  -?
>UQSSP Disk Controller 5 (760354)
>  -?
>
>So, it appears that the KFQSA is not seeing any drives.  Is it true
>that, as Chuck says in one post, that I need to disconnect the CPU
>from the DSSI Bus, or is it a matter of having two different IDs on
>the Bus 0 and Bus 1. (In Michael's example, he had id 6 for the onboard
>stuff, and ID 7 for the KFQSA. Would it be kosher for me just to
>swap ID plugs between the 3rd drive and Bus 0?)  Also, is there
>any danger of damaging the KFQSA or the CPU if I hook them up
>incorrectly?
>
>Doug