Stan pointed me to the right thing "most people don't define device classes
for disks in sysgen".

I had defined the classes in sysgen, they should have been defined in VOLUTIL.
I knew there was a step I missed.


Regards,

Sam


Stan Sieler wrote:
>
> Re:
> > On our HP3000-957 running MPE 5.5 I have my system volume drive 1 assigned
> > a class name of SYSDISC and drives 2/5 have PRODDISC for the class name.
> > I can do a restore using the option dev=PRODDISC and the restored files
> ...
> > On our HP3000-979 running MPE 6.0 I have the disc drives set up exactly
> > the same way.  When I try to do a restore, I get an error saying dev= has
> > to be a device number.
> >
> > Is this MPE 6.0 or did I forget a part when I was setting up the drives
> > on the 979?
>
> Check SYSGEN : IO on the 957 ...  I suspect you have device classes defined
> there, and not on your 979.  AFAIK, most people don't define device classes
> for disks in sysgen.  You can generally do what you need in other ways,
> like:   restore ; ... ; VOLSET=PRODDISC
>
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