[Info-vax] recognizing SCSI disks

[Dave Froble]

On 10/3/2019 5:56 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:

> Why was it necessary to power-cycle the machine so that it could see the
> disks?  I remember once when I pulled a SCSI cable by accident; the
> disks (including the system disk )went into mount verification, then
> came back when I plugged the cable back in.  That seems much more
> dangerous than unplugging the cable at the console prompt.  Of course,
> it is a different box (but same connector at the top of the box, the
> removable one where the cable plugs in), but surely the SCSI controller
> doesn't need the ID of the box (assuming that there is one).
>

First, mount verify is something VMS does.  The SRM console does not.

It was not SRM that lost the disks, it most likely was the sCSI 
controller.  As Hans mentioned, the SCSI controller needed to be 
commanded to go explore the SCSI bus.


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