[Info-vax] Boot drive died on a shadowed system disk

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <op.weiff9i7dc3j58 at notemv-tap.mv.privat>, "Martin Vorlaender"
<mv at pdv-systeme.de> writes: 

> > Especially in a case like this (remote site), I would want both units in
> > the list on the console.  (Most or all consoles I've seen limit the
> > number in the list to 2, although one can have more members in a shadow
> > set.)
> 
> I have configured multi-path DG boot devices on Alphas with firmware 7.3,
> mostly DS15, ES45, and ES47.
> 
> IIRC, the maximum length of the BOOTDEV_DEF console variable is 256.
> Within that limit, it takes as many boot devices as you want (think
> 2 HBAs and 2 EVAs = 4 paths x 2 EVAs = 8 bootable DGA devices).
> 
> FWIW, the latest console firmware takes a maximum of 16 FC translations;
> before that, it was limited to 8 (or 4?).> 

I was thinking of physical disks with a local connection to the machine
with the console.  However, come to think of it, I've never had a
3-member system disk, so maybe I am not remembering correctly.