SCSI 9-Track tape under VMS..?

From: David HM Spector <spector_at_zeitgeist.com>
Date: Tue Dec 10 11:28:12 2002

show scsi shows the KZQSA bit doesn't show any devices under it like
what show dev shows for the RF35 disks on the system.

I'm about to find a LInux box to put the tape on to make sure that its
not the tape drive...

David

On Tuesday, Dec 10, 2002, at 12:14 America/New_York, Kevin Handy wrote:

> Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
>>> From the its been way too long to remember department...
>>>
>>> I just put an old HP SCSI 9-track tape drive on my 4000/400 running
>>> Vax/VMS 5.2... Does VMS probe SCSI devices at boot time? Is there a
>>> way to access this drive without re-generating the system..?
>>>
> SCSI gets probed at boot time. You might try a
> "show device" or "show scsi" at the consol prompt ">>>"
> to see if it can see it.
>
>> What happens when you do a 'SHO DEV MK'? For example:
>>
>> $ sho dev mk
>>
>> Device Device Error Volume Free
>> Trans
>> Mnt
>> Name Status Count Label Blocks
>> Count
>> Cnt
>> MONK$MKA500: Online 0
>> $
>> Though the above is a on a PWS 433au running OpenVMS 7.2-1H1 and the
>> drive
>> is a DEC TLZ06 (4mm DAT).
>>
>> Zane
>>
>>
> Try this
>
> run sys$system:sysgen
> SYSGEN> autoconf all
>
> then do the "sho dev mk" again.
>
>
Received on Tue Dec 10 2002 - 11:28:12 GMT