[Info-vax] Alpha SCSI disks won't mount on integrity

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-12-22 02:28:12 +0000, Rich Jordan said:

> I'm trying to set up for a large scale move of data from an Alphaserver 
> to a remote newer Integrity; we need to do a bulk move (at a scheduled 
> time) much faster than the intervening networks will allow.   The total 
> transfer will be around 4 terabytes but is able to be stored in 
> savesets (or raw data, TBD) on those 300GB disks...

INIT /ERASE /GPT /SYSTEM /STRUCT=5 [...] the disks on OpenVMS Alpha 
(with adequate max files and headers set, as the INIT defaults are 
~always bad), re-populate the disk contents, and try the transfer again.

Or just shovel the stuff over onto some SSD-based laptop (zip "-V" with 
current zip 3.0 and unzip 6.0) and transfer that over to the new 
network, as four terabytes of storage is dinky by present-day storage 
standards. Or if the local laptops are as dinky as the OpenVMS Alpha 
data, scrounge an external SSD or HDD and use that for the transfer.




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