[Info-vax] Attempt to shadow IDE disk hangs DS10L

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <bUh8o.313$K4.146 at news.indigo.ie>, Tom Wade <nospam at picard.eurokom.ie> writes:
>
>> If you have a system with a non-IDE system disk and an IDE disk, try
>> to create a single-member shadowset from the IDE disk, this might show
>> better error messages from shadowing.
>
>I booted a different DS10L from an external SCSI disk, with the shadow parameters set. This was an 
>8.3 system without the UPDATE patch, but it was able to come up with DSA0 as the system disk.
>
>I then tried to put the internal IDE disk into its own shadow set:
>
>$ mount/over=id /noass $2$dqa0
>%MOUNT-I-MOUNTED, INTERNAL mounted on _$2$DQA0: (MHORAM)
>$ dism/nounl $2$dqa0
>$ mount/sys dsa1 /shadow=$2$dqa0 internal /confirm
>%SHADOW-I-VOLPROC, $2$DQA0: (MHORAM) has been removed from shadow set.
>
>%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  10-AUG-2010 18:27:16.75  %%%%%%%%%%%
>$2$DQA0: (MHORAM) has been removed from shadow set.
>
>%MOUNT-F-BADPARAM, bad parameter value
>$
>
>So it seems that shadowing doesn't work on IDE disks after all (as was pointed out, IDE didn't 
>appear on the list of supported disk types).
>
>Thanks to all who replied.


I tried with IDEs here Tom.  It can't be done.
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