[Info-vax] recognizing SCSI disks

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <qn6gvd$mvr$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> 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.

Right.

> 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.

I was thinking that SHOW DEV would do that, but perhaps SHOW CONFIG is 
needed.