[Info-vax] Need help mounting shadow set

[Tom Adams]

On Oct 6, 8:08 am, Tom Adams <tadams... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Oct 5, 7:26 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
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> > In article <slrnhcktdn.u6l.B... at rabbit.turquoisewitch.com>, B... at rabbit.turquoisewitch.com () writes:
> > >In article <d400c7af-31b8-469d-b7d2-d6813465b... at m18g2000vbs.googlegroups.com>,
> > > tadamsmar wrote:
> > >>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.
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> > >I've been following this threaad with some interest, but I'm wondering what
> > >version of VMS you are running; I'm assuming it's a version .lts. V7.3-2, since
> > >I think that's about the time that one could start shadowing "dissimilar"
> > >disks.
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> > >If I'm correct (or close), the I suppose an OS upgrade is out ofthe question?
> > >Lots of neat "new" features became available during that timeframe.
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> > Good point.  Sometimes we assume too much.  If it's not a recent version,
> > this dissimilar drive shadowing is going to pose some problems.
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> I am running 7.2-3.
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> I copied to the smaller disk while booted from the CD.   I am not
> reconstituting the shadowset.  All is working fine so far.
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> I guess one could avoid the problem by buying the internal DEC model,
> but that would be an older disk, I guess?
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> Since the shadowset will be smaller, I and hoping I can pop out the
> smaller disk and then put it back into the shadowset without problems.
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I can pull the smaller disk out of the shadowset and put it back.

That's because the shadowset is smaller than the bigger disk.  The is
a way to expand a shadowset to take the available space, I will not be
doing that.