Sounds like a lot of fun. Perhaps you can work in a WMD reference since
this was almost as much trouble...Glad everything is working...


Paul Edwards wrote:
> After a successful resolution to the problem I noted last week, here are the
> steps to be used by anyone who has exactly the same situation. This will be
> especially helpful for homesteaders doing their own repairs. A big load of
> thanks go to Craig Lalley for providing the work around to the problems with
> VOLUTIL and others on the list who provided inputs. This may not be the only
> solution but it worked for me. Other system configurations may not work this
> way.
>
> Situation: LDEV 2 on my 928LX with MPE/iX 7.5 was not responding after a few
> hours. A power down restart resolved the problem for a few hours when it
> went to sleep again. The drive was an internal HP branded Seagate ST34573N
> 4gb device. I decided to replace both internal drives with larger drives to
> test the > 4gb limit on LDEV 1. After I consulted IODFAULT.PUB.SYS for SE
> disk drives, I purchased 2 Seagate ST19171N 9gb drives from Global Micro on
> the Internet at $53.00 each since the warranty from Phoenix 3000 on the
> drives had expired. When I first tried to do an Install to the two new
> drives, I received the error reported last week. The seller had not low
> level formatted the drives. My two internal drives were the
> MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET and all my external drives were the USER volume set.
>
> Solution:
>   1. Make sure you have a good current full backup and CSLT. A CSLT *should*
> be done at least twice monthly during the full backup cycle. Make sure you
> use DIRECTORY on your STORE command and, to be safe, run BULDACCT.PUB.SYS
> prior to each backup. Run VSTORE.PUB.SYS against all your backups to verify
> the quality of the media and run CHECKSLT.MPEXL.TELESUP to verify your CSLT
> each time. If you can run these on different DDS drives, that will provide
> an additional verification.
>   2. Have a PC available with an inexpensive SCSI card in it. I have an
> Adaptec 2930 PCI card. After setting the proper SCSI address and connecting
> the drive, power up the PC and use the SCSI utilities to format the drive.
> Adaptec uses Cntl-A during bootup to access their utilities. The format took
> about 3 hours for each drive. CAUTION: Never use FORMATVOL in VOLUTIL
> because it will never work or finish in your lifetime. Be aware of the
> Terminator jumpers on the drives and set them correctly. Mine were missing,
> so I used the ones from the old drives. It really helped to download the
> installation instructions from the Seagate web site for the drives.
>   3. Since I replaced LDEVs 1 and 2, I removed both internal drives and
> installed the new ones making sure I set the proper SCSI address on both new
> drives. I then had to reinstall MPE from my CSLT and restore my full backup.
>   4. Use the Checklist J in the MPE software Maintenance Manual for the
> Install. Follow the directions very carefully.
>   5. After the initial startup, Logon as MANAGER.SYS at the console. Using
> DSTAT ALL, LDEV 2 showed being in an UNKNOWN state. Use debug as follows
> with n being the drive LDEV (2 in my case):
>       Debug
>       >msec #n.0,8
>       >msec #n.100,40
>       >exit
> There will be a lot of prompts for each line and enter zero to each one.
> This resets the drive header information.
>   6. Go into VOLUTIL. Use the NEWVOL command to add the drive to the volume
> set. CAUTION: Use a different Member name so that you won't get a duplicate
> member name message and have to start all over (like I did). I used Membr2
> instead of Member2. Exit VOLUTIL. DSTAT ALL should show the new drive
> properly.
>   7. You should be able to finish the rest of the checklist J steps to
> restore the backup and finish the Install and reboot. There are steps that
> give you the option of using DIRECTORY for the restore or BULDJOB1 and 2 to
> get your accounting structure completed. I restored [log in to unmask]@.@ and streamed
> the two jobs. Then I restored the rest of my files with KEEP and OLDDATE.
>   8. Everything works OK now.
>
> Sorry if anyone is disappointed this doesn't concern politics or religion.
> But, you'll get over it.
>
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