[Info-vax] automatic shadow copy?

[IanD]

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>  In my case, the system was up and THEN I 
> physically inserted the disk and ran AUTOCONFIGURE.
> 

oh!

Could be construed as being very smart or in your case, a bit too smart and not ideally what you wanted :-)

> 
> For the system disk, yes.
> 
> > I thought this went against the recommendation that a system disk shadow me=
> > mber should not automatically be added in case it's a last known good copy =
> > then you have nothing to go back to? I think I read that somewhere
> 
> You boot from a physical disk.  Soon after, the other member, if found, 
> is added.  You can list all members in BOOTDEF_DEV, so it will try all 
> until one is found.
> 
> > Any doc source that I can read up on to explain this auto adding phenomenon=
> >   would be great too :-)
> 
> The VMS documentation?

I have not found it hence the question if someone knows where it exists :-)

I know I read something once about a certain block on a disk marking a disk as a shadow master or not but that's about as far as I can remember with my ageing grey matter. Your comment about booting from a physical disk set the right context for me and stopping to think about it, this makes sense that it's set as a console parameter

I'll have to have a look at next reboot then, which just so happens to be tonight :-)

Thanks for steering me in the right direction, logic wise