HP-UX

Hello,

I work on an oil rig offshore with limited resources at my disposal at the moment. We have been trying to repair one of our IMS stations, but no one out here is familiar with UNIX and our ABB service rep is spotty at best. The machine is an HP 9000 running HP-UX 10.20.

We are trying to install the necessary software on our IMS. We had a SCSI hard drive go out and replaced the drive with a brand new one. At boot, I insert a known good disc and boot from that disc. The installation disc goes through a series of setup questions and completes the software installation on the new drive.

When I try to boot from the hard drive, it gives me an ENTRY_INIT, STATUS = -3 error. Failed to initialize drive.

I know virtually nothing about UNIX, but the new drive is a FW-SCSI with an ID of 4. The CD-ROM drive is an SE-SCSI with an ID of 3. Are these different types of SCSIs. Can they interact in the same system?

Forgive me if I'm asking seriously basic questions, I'm used to Windows and feel the same way when people ask me really basic questions. It seems as if I have a hardware issue, and I'm just trying to isolate the problem.

Please feel free to ask me for anymore information that you need in order to help.

Thanks, I really appreciate this.

Since this is an HP-UX question I will move this question to our HP-UX section. It's been years since I've touched HP-UX but 10.20 is a very old release. It would probably help our HP-UX experts if you post the model of your HP 9000 system. And post precisely what you are doing when you attempt to boot from the disk after you install the OS.

FW-SCSI is fast and wide scsi while SE-SCSI is single-ended scsi. They certainly can co-exist but not on the chain. It would be crucial that the old disk that fried out was FW-SCSI and then you replaced it with another FW-SCSI drive. If the OS installation seems to go OK, you are probably ok. It sounds to me like you are fumbling when you try to boot. But I'll have to leave that to folks who have used HP-UX more recently than I.

Good Luck!


---edit----

I looked it up. HP-UX 10.20 was released in 1996. HP dropped support in 2003. So, yep... it's an old release. source

Thanks Perderabo...
I agree, knowing with what we are dealing helps, from what I remember depending of the model (K class and above are not concerned...) booting from FW-SCSI was an option (different HW device sold as option e.g on D class you would take to mirror and hot swap...).