[Info-vax] removing device

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER]

In article <gl76ur$odr$1 at news.belwue.de>, gartmann at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph Gartmann) writes:
>is it possible to remove a non existent device under OpenVMS 7.3-2?

You mean a DELETE/DEVICE or DELETE/CLASS=DEVICE ?
As Hoff once explained it detail: no (I didn't like the answer either)

>I have DKC3: which existed once on my SmartArray 5300A. Now that I
>reconfigured the controller the device is still present and its error
>counter increases over time. I know that a reboot will cure the problem.
>A "mc sysman, io autoconfigure" did not :-(

You could reset the error count, though: SET DEVICE/RESET=ERROR DKC3

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Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTÖGER
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