[Info-vax] Need help mounting shadow set

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In article <4aca3c40$0$6296$9b536df3 at news.fv.fi>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kari_Uusim=E4ki?= <uusimaki at exdecWITHOUTTHISfinland.org> writes:
>Tom Adams wrote:
>> 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?
>
>You can do backup/image directly to the other disk and then boot from it.

/IGNORE-INTERLOCK.

Best bet would be to boot from the CD or another volume with VMS.  Do
the backup and then boot from the NEW drive as the master.

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