[Info-vax] Exploring a hard drive on a new Vaxstation

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Sun Jan 28 17:35:19 EST 2018


In article <7bea3a4b-30b3-4d1e-9a6b-7e97e25f1e37 at googlegroups.com>,
Cliff Miller  <cliff52 at gmail.com> wrote:
>When I wrote "File Not Found" I was being imprecise and caused unnecessary confusion, for which I apologize.
>The RZ23 hard drive shows up as device DKA300.  When I typed "Boot DKA300" I got the messages:
>-DKA300
>?42 NOSUCHFILE, DKA300 
>84 FAIL
>I'll proceed such that the disk is present and readable but not bootable.  As I have no SCSI CDROM at the present I'll pursue the option to net boot via SIMH and install a fresh VMS that way.
>Thanks for all the replies - 

You forgot the colon.  "DKA300" is a file, "DKA300:" is a device.
--scott
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