[Info-vax] Need help mounting shadow set

[Tom Adams]

On Oct 5, 2:04 pm, Joseph Huber <joseph.hu... at NIRWANA.web.de> wrote:
> tadamsmar schrieb:
>
> > I had to replace one of my disks that was logging errors.  I bought
> > exactly the same make and model disk.  But it will not mount.  I am
> > getting an error saying the disk is too small.
>
> > The new disk shows:
>
> > Disk $1$DKA100: (EESN), device type COMPAQ ST32171W, is online, file-
> [snip] ...
> >     Total blocks             4110000    
> > The current system disk that I want to shadow shows:
>
> > Disk DSA0:, device type DEC RZ1BB-CS, is online, mounted, file-
>
> [snip]...
>
> >     Total blocks             4110480    
>
> The disk might be the same physically, but apparently has different
> firmware leading to different "device type", and slightly less blocks:
> these tiny 480 blocks missing.
>
> --
>
>   Joseph Huber   -http://www.huber-joseph.de

I guess I can do a copy to the new disk and then boot with it as the
shadow master,  then I can add the old disk to the shadow set.

Is there a way to do a direct copy. Or do I have to do a backup image
and then copy to the other disk?