[Info-vax] SmartArray 5300

[nelson_r at encompasserve.org]

On Jan 15, 3:40 am, gartm... at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph
Gartmann) wrote:
> In article <496e7ddc$0$26849$afc38... at news.optusnet.com.au>, huw.dav... at kerberos.davies.net.au writes:
> >R.A.Omond <Roy.Om... at bluebubble.uk.com> wrote:
> >> Christoph Gartmann wrote:
>
> >> > on a DS25 under OpenVMS 7.3-2 we have a SmartArray 5300 controller. It has been
> >> > configured quite some time ago ;-). I installed the whole bunch of HP SSL, HP
> >> > MGMTAGENTS and HP ACUXE and got the latter working. Unfortunately I don't
> >> > see the new drives I put into the array (that's the reason for the
> >> > reconfiguration). Thus, is there a way to tell this thing that there are new
> >> > drives available? Or do I have to reboot?
>
> >> Hmmm... did you try:
>
> >> $ mcr sysman io auto
>
> Didn't help.
>
> >I was working on exactly this sort of thing yesterday. If the above
> >suggestions don't work, try the following two commands at the SRM (>>>)
> >prompt:
>
> >>>> set HEAP_EXTEND 2MB
> >>>> set BOOTBIOS pya0
>
> I'll try that as soon as I have a possibility to reboot. But is there no other
> way?
>
> Regards,
>    Christoph Gartmann
>
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Hi,

You can download the msa$util package from HP.  This allows you to
configure the 5300 online from VMS.  The download is free.

    -Randy