[Info-vax] %CNXMAN, Using local access method for quorum disk every QDSKINTERVAL seconds (emulated Alpha V7.3-2)

[Hans Bachner]

Stephen Hoffman schrieb am 28.10.2023 um 15:06:
> On 2023-10-25 16:48:11 +0000, Scott Snadow said:
> 
>> Trying to replicate an old production system, hence the reason that 
>> I'm messing around with V7.3-2.
>>
>> I'm running on a Windows 10 laptop...
>> ...using VMware Workstation Player version 16 with six virtual cores...
>> ......running Windows 11...
>> .........running FreeAXP version 679...
>> ............running a freshly-installed V7.3-2
>>
>> I created a quorum disk and made it $1$DKA600; initialized it, mounted 
>> it, ran SYS$MANAGER:CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM to point to it.
>>
>> Rebooted the emulated Alpha a couple of times and it boots fine, goes 
>> through the expected "remote access" for the quorum disk, then changes 
>> to local, and all is well.  The disk is mounted during the startup. 
>> But before the startup completes, I start getting that local access 
>> message across OPA0: every QDSKINTERVAL seconds FOREVER.  Originally 
>> it was every 3 seconds since that's the default, then I increased it 
>> to 10, and now I get the message every 10 seconds.
> 
> 
> Absent—maybe—fibre channel, I don't know of any emulators that even have 
> any shared-access storage I/O paths to local or directly-accessible 
> non-served storage. [...]

Well, Scott already posted the solution for FreeAXP, CHARON-AXP supports 
local container files as shared SCSI disks as well, and so does AVTware...

> OpenVMS would need much better SMB support deeply integrated for the most common case, there.

OpenVMS does not need SMB for using a quorum disk, but you know that...

Hans.