/   Standalone BACKUP, Device DEVOFFLINE Errors?    The Question is:    / I am having trouble booting up a MicroVAX 3600. ? When I switch it on it goes through the system tests then says:     Loading system software  (BOOT/R5:0 DUB3)   @ this times out after about 5 minutes and then gives the message:    ?4D DEVOFFLINE, DUB3 ?06 HLT INST          PC - 00000C1A Failure.   * So obviously the drive DUB3 is not online.0 I then have the chevron prompt so I did a sh dev and I get the following:     UQSSP Disk Controller 0 (772150) -DUA2 (RA82)     UQSSP Disk Controller 0 (760334) -DUB3 (RA90) -DUB4 (RA90) -DUB5 (RA90)   6 ... some other tape controllers and ethernet adapter..   J I have then systematcially tried to boot off every one of the disk drives.   Q Every gives the same output as DUB3 except DUB4 which gives the following output:     1..0..   >  VAX/VMS Version V5.5 Main version id - 1 Minor version id - 0   C PLEASE ENTER DATE AND TIME... etc. (I then enter the date and time)     Configuring devices. , , .5 Now configuring HSC, RF, and MSCF-served devices, , .    M Please check the names of the devices which have been configured to make sure F  that ALL remote devices which you intend to use have been configured.   " If any device does not show etc...   A (then a list of disk drives and tape drives is output follwed by)    2 Enter "YES" when all needed devices are available:   0 Now if I type "YES" I get the following message:   L %BACKUP-I-IDENT, Stand-alone BACKUP V5.5: the date is 4-JUN-2004 10:03:05.66      O Then I seem to get the dollar prompt. However, this does not seem to be the DCL K  command line but some other utility command line (backup??) which will not 8  respond to a "HELP" command. In fact most attempts get:   F %CLI-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling   ' Can you shed any light on this problem?     Thanks Neil     The Answer is :   F   It would appear that there are hardware problems with several of theG   disk devices.  This could be a bus misconfiguration, incorrect wiring I   between the UQSSP-series controller and the DSA storage devices, and/or I   one or more hardware failures.  The cause of this commonly includes one G   or more misconfigured Q-bus controllers.  (For additional information B   on Q-bus configuration requirements, please see topics including   (1149), (1866) and (3232).)    J   It would appear that you have at least two MSCP-class DSA-series storageI   controllers present in this system (usually the KDA50 series controller G   for RA-series disks), with an unknown quantity of additional hardware    present in the configuration.    L   It would appear that the console default bootstrap is set to select DUB3:.   H   That DUB4: successfully bootstraps would imply that there are problemsE   with the other disks apparently resident on that disk controller -- I   hardware failures involving disks ages similar to that of the RA-series F   devices are not unheard of, of course -- or that there are other and/   associated device or configuration conflicts.    E   Please contact your hardware services organization or your local HP C   hardware services office for assistance with questionable or with G   failed hardware -- the OpenVMS (software) Wizard is not in a position ?   to provide hardware support, diagnostics, or troubleshooting.    E   DUB4: contains a very old Standalone BACKUP root.  The only command H   that is valid and available in this environment is the BACKUP command.D   For details on Standalone BACKUP, please see the system managementH   documentation, particularly around the documentation for archiving andI   restoring the system disk on an OpenVMS VAX system -- Standalone BACKUP (   is the mechanism used for those tasks.   G   Once you resolve the configuration or hardware issues -- and assuming H   that there are no other bootable roots found once the configuration isI   operational -- you can use this standalone root (or you can boot a more H   recent version of OpenVMS VAX Standalone BACKUP another load device onD   this system), and can (re)load OpenVMS VAX onto one or more of the   specified disks.   /  Answer written or last revised on  4-JUN-2004  