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

[David Froble]

Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER wrote:
> 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.

Sort of reminds you of weendoze registry, huh?

I don't care what some say about VMSINSTAL.COM.  It works, and when it 
doesn't, you can mangle the DCL to make it work.