Hi,
last night was supposed to be the last time I was going to boot
VMS before it will be forever banished from my house (because
we finally have an Ultrix 4.5 tape and my uVAX-II runs NetBSD
and Ultrix and can write to TK50 :-). The only reason I had to
boot VMS once more was to write myself a uVAX diagnostic tape.
And of course, whenever you start VMS you're in for trouble :-)
I'll cut it short and ask your help for the following matter.
Part of the diagnostics tape procedure is to initialize a file
system on the TK50 with this command (I didn't invent this, it
comes right from a DEC supplied DCL script.)
$ INITIALIZE MUC6: ELAN
When that runs the tape scrunches and spins happily until
suddenly:
%PBC0, Port is Reinitializing ( 45 Retries Left). Check the Error Log.
%INIT-F-VOLINV, volume is not software enabled
What the heck does that mean? Yes I have VOLPRO privilleges and
I think the tape writes fine, as I have used it for other
reads and writes. It happens with both VMS 7.1 and VMS 5.4.
There is probably some "obvious" thing you have to do, but what?
Here is the error log, if it tells you anything:
****** ENTRY 3677., ERROR SEQUENCE 110. LOGGED ON SID 0B000006
ERL$LOGSTATUS ENTRY KA64A CPU FW REV# 6. CONSOLE FW REV# 4.0
XMI NODE # 1.
I/O SUB-SYSTEM, UNIT _MUC6:
MSLG$L_CMD_REF 61F60004
ORB$L_OWNER 00000000
OWNER UIC [000,000]
UCB$L_CHAR 0CC44038
DIRECTORY STRUCTURED
SINGLE DIRECTORY
"SEQUENTIAL BLOCK" ORIENTED
FILE ORIENTED
AVAILABLE
ERROR LOGGING
ALLOCATED
CAPABLE OF INPUT
CAPABLE OF OUTPUT
UCB$L_OPCNT 00000029
41. QIO'S THIS UNIT
UCB$W_ERRCNT 0003
3. ERRORS THIS UNIT
UCB$W_STS 0810
ONLINE
SOFTWARE VALID
CDRP$L_MEDIA 00000000
CDRP$W_FUNC 000C
READ PHYSICAL BLOCK
CDRP$L_BCNT 00000050
TRANSFER SIZE 80. BYTE(S)
CDRP$W_BOFF 0170
368. BYTE PAGE OFFSET
CDRP$L_PID 0001000D
REQUESTOR "PID"
CDRP$Q_IOSB 000001F4
00000000 IOSB, 0. BYTE(S) TRANSFERRED
I think it's got something to do with this "SOFTWARE VALID" status,
but what is that and how can I convince this thing to go ahead?
thanks for your help, this is just about the last time I'm going
to bother you with my silly VMS questions.
regards,
-Gunther
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Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow_at_regenstrief.org
Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org
Received on Sat Mar 02 2002 - 12:54:02 GMT