[Info-vax] Need help mounting shadow set

[Tom Adams]

On Oct 5, 2:49 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <4aca3c40$0$6296$9b536... at news.fv.fi>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kari_Uusim=E4ki?= <uusim... at exdecWITHOUTTHISfinland.org> writes:
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> >Tom Adams wrote:
> >> On Oct 5, 2:04 pm, Joseph Huber <joseph.hu... at NIRWANA.web.de> wrote:
> >>> tadamsmar schrieb:
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> >>>> 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]...
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> >>>>     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.
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> >>>   Joseph Huber   -http://www.huber-joseph.de
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> >> 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.
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> >> 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?
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> >You can do backup/image directly to the other disk and then boot from it.
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> /IGNORE-INTERLOCK.
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> 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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That was a bit confusing to me, I looked up interlock.

I plan to boot on the CD, so I don't need /IGNORE=INTERLOCK I guess.

Do I have to do anything special to boot with dka100 as master?

Thanks!