Donna Garverick wrote:

> it's just friggin' bizzare (oh, i guess i shouldn't talk that way around the
> 'babies') that when i do a showdev [class] it's in no particular order (or
> at least no discernable order) and yet other 7.0pp1 users are report that
> it's in order for them.  dunno....just dunno....       - d

Oh, I dunno... I *think* :showdev [class] was also somewhat arbitrary
as well.  In fact, on my 6.0 system:

(MANAGER.SYS)# sd disc
 LDEV     AVAIL         OWNERSHIP         VOLID         DEN   ASSOCIATION

   40     DISC          N/A
   41     DISC          N/A
   42     DISC          N/A
   43     DISC          N/A
   30     DISC          N/A
   31     DISC          N/A
   32     DISC          N/A
   33     DISC          N/A
    2     DISC          N/A
    1     DISC          N/A

Don't ask me how or why they got that way; most of my other 'classes'
are in order.  Ldevs 1-2 are the $LONG_NAME volume set :-) while there
are user volume sets on 30,32 (mirrored to 40, 31 (mirrored to 41),
and another non-mirrored volume set on 33,43.

Now the plain old ':showdev' is indeed in order, and always has been.
As for John Clogg's suggestion:

> I wonder if a LC in Sysgen would show the devices in the same order as the
> SHOWDEV?  maybe rebuilding the class definition in SYSGEN would solve your
> problem.  Worth a look anyway.

On same system:

>      io> lc disc
>
> CLASSNAME   MODE    MIN MODE  DCC MODE  # DCC  LDEV
> ---------  -------  --------  --------  -----  ----
> DISC       default  random              0      1, 2, 30, 31, 32, 33, 40,
>                                                41, 42, 43,
>      io>

So, so much for that idea.  DSTAT gets them in order too:

> (MANAGER.SYS)# dstat all
>  LDEV-TYPE            STATUS    VOLUME           VOLUME SET - GEN
>  ----------           -------   ----------------------------------
>     1-ST34371W        MASTER    MEMBER1          MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET-0
>     2-ST34371W        MEMBER    MEMBER2          MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET-0
>    30-ST34572WC       MASTER-MD MEMBER1          PRODUCTION-0
>    31-ST34572WC       MASTER-MD MEMBER1          DEVELOPMENT-0
>    32-ST34572WC       MEMBER-MD MEMBER2          PRODUCTION-0
>    33-ST34572WC       MASTER    MEMBER1          WORKSPACE-0
>    40-ST34572WC       MASTER-MD MEMBER1          PRODUCTION-0
>    41-ST34572WC       MASTER-MD MEMBER1          DEVELOPMENT-0
>    42-ST34572WC       MEMBER-MD MEMBER2          PRODUCTION-0
>    43-ST34572WC       MEMBER    MEMBER2          WORKSPACE-0

So, they mystery remains.  I don't know what chain :showdev classname
is following...

Jeff

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