On Tue, October 11, 2016 14:29, Alan Yeo wrote:
> On 11/10/2016 18:56, James B. Byrne wrote:
>> On Tue, October 11, 2016 13:21, Craig Lalley wrote:
>>> James,
>>> Just a SWAG, but my guess is the system disc, ldev 1, bit the dust.
>>> You MAYBE able to recover with a CSLT long enough to do a backup,
>>> but
>>> I would not bet on it.
>>> -Craig
>>>
>> On Tue, October 11, 2016 13:31, Keven Miller wrote:
>>> yes, I've seen this when system cannot find a/the disc to boot
>>> from.
>>>
>> Well, I have a service call into our local TP support.  And I have
>> three spare drives in house.  And I have a full backup done this
>> morning at ~04:00 local.  So, providing that the tape is ok and that
>> the dds3 drive does not choose this opportune time to hiccup, things
>> should be ok; Eventually.
>
> If you have a CSLT you could try booting from an alternate path,
> and see if it boots it would probably confirm that its failing to
> find/read ldev1.  I assume you meant MPE/iX 6.5 on a 918?
>
>
> Alan
>

No. We are on 7.5pp<something> (pp5 I think). It was a failed drive. 
We installed the reserve drive and booted from the CSLT.  It found
everything.

Our configuration is this (from my records):

LDEV-TYPE            STATUS    VOLUME        VOLUME SET - GEN
 ----------           -------   ----------------------------------
    1-ST318417N       MASTER    MEMBER1      MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET-0
    2-ST318417N       MASTER    MIDATA00     HAL_DATA-0
    3-ST318417N       MASTER    MEMBER1      HAL_BKUP-0

The drive that failed was the system disc.  We have reinstalled the
system from the CSLT.  Now I need to have someone remind me how to
restore the directory and accounts from the most recent full backup
without overwriting the data on the private volume since that should
be fine.




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