[Info-vax] Question about IDE disks

[JF Mezei]

BTW, a very knowledgeable person has contacted me privately. It appears
that IDE protocol is able to send error messages to the OS, but that the
DQDRIVER on VMS doesn't do anything with them.

However, there appears to be at least an exception to this since the
DQDRIVE is able to log an error when the system is being configured and
it tries very hard to create a drive that doesn't exist. (if you don't
have 2 drives in the system).

What I have done in the mean time is accelerate the moving of data to
the new server. I had planned to do this on a application by application
basis but am now using ZIP to take a snapshot of each top dircetory on
the drive. *(I was told VMS can't handle files greater than 4 gigs on a
remote NFS server, so breaking up the drive into multiple zip files
would alleviate this).