[Info-vax] Nonexistent IDE/ATAPI disk, is online, file-oriented device, shareable, available to cluster, error logging is enabled.

[JF Mezei]

Michael Moroney wrote:

> Rather than scan for potential devices and _not_ creating a UCB/device
> if it finds nothing responding, for some reason it creates one anyway
> but marks it as a "Nonexistent IDE/ATAPI disk".


Perhaps the author of the DQ driver could chime in. But is it possible
that they did this on purpose to allow hot swappable devices ? If the OS
has already reserved the structures for a device at DQB0:, perhaps you
could plug in such a device and the system would be able to use it right
away. (just speculating here).