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

[Rich Jordan]

On Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 9:48:38 AM UTC-6, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 12/23/2021 10:33 AM, Rich Jordan wrote: 
> 
> > Rob, 
> > going to have to wait for more details; dev is using the itanium for some emergency test builds for a year-end problem they just found. I'll try to get error log info later but the reported error looks just like trying to mount a tape that is not loaded: 
> > 
> > $ MOUNT/SYSTEM ALTI64$DKB500: TALPHASYS 
> > %MOUNT-I-OPRQST, medium is offline 
> > %MOUNT-I-OPRQST, Please mount volume TALPHASYS in drive _ALTI64$DKB500
> It's time to use DKDRIVER logging to get more detail. 
> 
> The DKDRIVER SDA extension will use a ring buffer to log the SCSI commands sent 
> and the responses back from the controller. 
> 
> $ anal/sys 
> 
> OpenVMS system analyzer 
> 
> SDA> dklog 
> DKLOG command format: 
> DKLOG SHOW {<devnam>|/ADDRESS=<ucbaddr>} [/DIRECTION=[FORWARD|BACKWARD(D)] 
> DKLOG START {<devnam>|/ADDRESS=<ucbaddr>}[/ENTRIES=[<count>|128(D)] 
> DKLOG STOP {<devnam>|/ADDRESS=<ucbaddr>} 
> DKLOG CLEAR {<devnam>|/ADDRESS=<ucbaddr>} 
> <devnam> acts on all matching device UCBs, <ucbaddr> acts on a single UCB. 
> SDA> 
> 
> So, you'd do 
> 
> SDA> DKLOG START <devnam> 
> SDA>exit 
> $ mount . . . 
> anal/sys 
> SDA> SET OUT <filename> 
> SDA> DKLOG SHOW <devnam> 
> SDA> EXIT 
> $ 
> 
> -- 
> -- Rob

I will try that as soon as I can.  Dev is still owning the machine.

Thanks