[Info-vax] $GETRMI RMI$_DISKS

[hb]

On Mar 19, 8:31 am, Mark Daniel <mark.dan... at wasd.vsm.com.au> wrote:

> %SYSTEM-F-BADPARAM, bad parameter value

As you probably know, you will get SS$_BADPARAM when either the item
code or item size is wrong.

> If I reduce the buffer size to 4 (longword) I get
>
> sys$getrmi() %X00000001  IOsb: %X00000001

You said you checked the sources, there should be the expected item
size. It seems it is 4.

> because it initialises the disk count longword but then seems to barf on ...

It initializes the disk count and then there is no more room to store
other data.