Gavin,

To keep the storyline simple I left out the part about the FORMATVOL
command that was aborted accidentally. When this happened the drive was not
visible to VOLUTIL. I was all prepared to use ODE to reformat the drive
when I ran DISCUTIL from the IPL. After doing this the disc drive was again
visible to VOLUTIL even though I did nothing but invoke and exit from
DISCUTIL. IMVHO there has got to be *something* going on otherwise the
drive would not have become visible to VOLUTIL again. The question is what?

Respectfully,

Paul Courry



At 03:52 PM 9/9/98 -0700, Gavin Scott wrote:
>Paul wrote:
>> After attempting such fixes as FORMATVOL to no success, I ran DISCUTIL from
>> the IPL> prompt. Please note that I did *nothing* except invoke it and exit
>> it. Not only did MEMBER2 and other names become available again, but it
>> cured my warts and got rid of my dandruff. What is going on here?
>
>As far as I can tell, entering and then exiting DISCUTIL does not alter
>any structures on disc or in memory which would be picked up by a
>subsequent boot, so my guess it that it was the fact that you rebooted
>the system rather than the execution of DISCUTIL that had the effect.
>
>G.
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