[Info-vax] [OpenVMS Alpha V8.3] How to recover a corrupted PCSI database?

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER]

In article <kfs0c5$c6u$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>On 2013-02-18 00:44:24 +0000, Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER said:
>
>> Is there a better way than reinstalling the system (and all LPs) or maybe
>> following Hoff's old advice http://openvms.compaq.com/wizard/wiz_2434.html
>> (as this was 1999 and PCSI utility hopefully got improved in the meantime)?
>
>AFAIK, no.   Though check with HP support and see if they've 
>implemented a tool to perform some or all of this recovery.

I recovered with a shadow set copy from last summer I recently found...

>If you have access to the patches, definitely load the current PCSI 
>patch kit.  This so your PCSI database rebuild uses the latest bits, 
>and particularly because of, well, reasons.  Good reasons.

While I support this your advice for others, for me it doesn't apply
1) I can no longer install (or remove) anything.
2) latest PCSI kit was already installed (since last spring)
and didn't prevent this corruption (which ANA PDP doesn't see)...

-EPLAN

PS: PCSI ECO fixed a bug with device name handling, so it could help,
if you change the device name (with reboot) if you see a similar error
(and then increase disk label size over 7 chars) but it didn't help me.
-- 
Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTÖGER
Network and OpenVMS system specialist
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