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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-01-28, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
> 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.

The colon isn't needed for VMB:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
sim> b


KA655-B V5.3, VMB 2.7
Performing normal system tests.
40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..31..30..29..28..27..26..25..
24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..15..14..13..12..11..10..09..
08..07..06..05..04..03..
Tests completed.
>>>b
No default boot device has been specified.

Available devices.
-DUA0 (RA81)
-DUA1 (RD54)
-DUA2 (RD54)
-DUA3 (RX50)
-MUA0 (TK50)
-MUA1 (TK50)
-MUA2 (TK50)
-MUA3 (TK50)
-DLA0 (RL01)
-DLA1 (RL01)
-DLA2 (RL01)
-DLA3 (RL01)
-XQA0 (08-00-2B-01-02-03)

Device? [XQA0]: dua0

(BOOT/R5:0 DUA0



  2..
-DUA0
  1..0..


   OpenVMS VAX Version V6.1     Major version id = 1 Minor version id = 0
------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is what happens if you specify a device which doesn't exist:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
sim> b


KA655-B V5.3, VMB 2.7
Performing normal system tests.
40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..31..30..29..28..27..26..25..
24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..15..14..13..12..11..10..09..
08..07..06..05..04..03..
Tests completed.
>>>b dka300
(BOOT/R5:0 DKA300



  2..
?41 DEVASSIGN, DKA300
------------------------------------------------------------------------

My guess is that the disk isn't a valid system disk.

Phillip's idea about making the box a cluster node is actually a good
one if the OP is a hobbyist who is using the hobbyist licences.

Simon.

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