[Info-vax] Need help mounting shadow set

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In article <64344140-5ed1-4074-a466-1ce103ed8f09 at r36g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>, Tom Adams <tadamsmar at yahoo.com> writes:
>On Oct 5, 2:49=A0pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <4aca3c40$0$6296$9b536... at news.fv.fi>, =3D?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kari_U=
>usim=3DE4ki?=3D <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. =A0I bough=
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>> >>>> exactly the same make and model disk. =A0But it will not mount. =A0I=
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>> >>>> getting an error saying the disk is too small.
>> >>>> The new disk shows:
>> >>>> Disk $1$DKA100: (EESN), device type COMPAQ ST32171W, is online, file=
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>> >>> [snip] ...
>> >>>> =A0 =A0 Total blocks =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 4110000 =A0 =A0
>> >>>> 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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>> >>>> =A0 =A0 Total blocks =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 4110480 =A0 =A0
>> >>> The disk might be the same physically, but apparently has different
>> >>> firmware leading to different "device type", and slightly less blocks=
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>> >>> these tiny 480 blocks missing.
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>> >>> =A0 Joseph Huber =A0 -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, =A0then 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. =A0Do
>> 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.
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>I plan to boot on the CD, so I don't need /IGNORE=3DINTERLOCK I guess.
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>Do I have to do anything special to boot with dka100 as master?

You could, after the backup, swap the drive to make them whatever
SCSI ID is necessary for your boot situation.  If, for example,
DKA100 is the current boot drive with the larger 411480 blocks,
BACKUP/IMAGE it to the 411000 blocks drive (assume that's DKA200).
Swap them and boot.

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