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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