I had this recently and it turned out to be a misplaced card on the Qbus. In other words not in the proper serpentine order. Check the Qbus sequence and also try removing some cards. Regards Rob -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner- hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Cory Smelosky Sent: 15 November 2013 03:55 To: hecnet at update.uu.se Subject: [HECnet] Cluster annoyances Hello all, I'm trying to get a MicroVAX II to cluster with MORIA. It's not going so well: MOIRA::CSMELOSKY$ %%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 14-NOV-2013 22:48:59.18 %%%%%%%%%%% Message from user SYSTEM on MOIRA LANACP MOP V3 Downline Load Service Volunteered to load request on ESA0 from MOYA Requested file: DISK$MOIRA:<SYS10.>[SYSCOMMON.SYSLIB]NISCS_LOAD.EXE MOIRA::CSMELOSKY$ %%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 14-NOV-2013 22:49:04.72 %%%%%%%%%%% Message from user SYSTEM on MOIRA LANACP MOP V3 Downline Load Service Load succeeded for MOYA on ESA0 System image, DISK$MOIRA:<SYS10.>[SYSCOMMON.SYSLIB]NISCS_LOAD.EXE (VAX image) MOIRA::CSMELOSKY$ %%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 14-NOV-2013 22:50:58.07 %%%%%%%%%%% 22:50:58.07 Node MOIRA (csid 00010001) received VAXcluster membership request from node MOYA MOIRA::CSMELOSKY$ %%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 14-NOV-2013 22:50:58.08 %%%%%%%%%%% 22:50:58.07 Node MOIRA (csid 00010001) proposed addition of node MOYA MOIRA::CSMELOSKY$ %%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 14-NOV-2013 22:50:58.62 %%%%%%%%%%% 22:50:58.61 Node MOIRA (csid 00010001) completed VAXcluster state transition MOIRA::CSMELOSKY$ %%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 14-NOV-2013 22:51:07.99 %%%%%%%%%%% 22:51:07.99 Node MOIRA (csid 00010001) lost connection to node MOYA MOIRA::CSMELOSKY$ %%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 14-NOV-2013 22:51:27.59 %%%%%%%%%%% 22:51:27.49 Node MOIRA (csid 00010001) timed-out lost connection to node MOYA The moment it joins the cluster, it immediately loses connectivity. There's between 5 and 10 milliseconds of latency between the two...but that shouldn't matter...should it? As I don't have a SCSI Qbus adapter, and I didn't get the TK50+TQK50 with it, I can only MOP boot it. 60M disk is also not a lot. -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects