After a successful resolution to the problem I noted last week, here are the
steps to be used by anyone who has exactly the same situation. This will be
especially helpful for homesteaders doing their own repairs. A big load of
thanks go to Craig Lalley for providing the work around to the problems with
VOLUTIL and others on the list who provided inputs. This may not be the only
solution but it worked for me. Other system configurations may not work this
way.

Situation: LDEV 2 on my 928LX with MPE/iX 7.5 was not responding after a few
hours. A power down restart resolved the problem for a few hours when it
went to sleep again. The drive was an internal HP branded Seagate ST34573N
4gb device. I decided to replace both internal drives with larger drives to
test the > 4gb limit on LDEV 1. After I consulted IODFAULT.PUB.SYS for SE
disk drives, I purchased 2 Seagate ST19171N 9gb drives from Global Micro on
the Internet at $53.00 each since the warranty from Phoenix 3000 on the
drives had expired. When I first tried to do an Install to the two new
drives, I received the error reported last week. The seller had not low
level formatted the drives. My two internal drives were the
MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET and all my external drives were the USER volume set.

Solution:
  1. Make sure you have a good current full backup and CSLT. A CSLT *should*
be done at least twice monthly during the full backup cycle. Make sure you
use DIRECTORY on your STORE command and, to be safe, run BULDACCT.PUB.SYS
prior to each backup. Run VSTORE.PUB.SYS against all your backups to verify
the quality of the media and run CHECKSLT.MPEXL.TELESUP to verify your CSLT
each time. If you can run these on different DDS drives, that will provide
an additional verification.
  2. Have a PC available with an inexpensive SCSI card in it. I have an
Adaptec 2930 PCI card. After setting the proper SCSI address and connecting
the drive, power up the PC and use the SCSI utilities to format the drive.
Adaptec uses Cntl-A during bootup to access their utilities. The format took
about 3 hours for each drive. CAUTION: Never use FORMATVOL in VOLUTIL
because it will never work or finish in your lifetime. Be aware of the
Terminator jumpers on the drives and set them correctly. Mine were missing,
so I used the ones from the old drives. It really helped to download the
installation instructions from the Seagate web site for the drives.
  3. Since I replaced LDEVs 1 and 2, I removed both internal drives and
installed the new ones making sure I set the proper SCSI address on both new
drives. I then had to reinstall MPE from my CSLT and restore my full backup.
  4. Use the Checklist J in the MPE software Maintenance Manual for the
Install. Follow the directions very carefully.
  5. After the initial startup, Logon as MANAGER.SYS at the console. Using
DSTAT ALL, LDEV 2 showed being in an UNKNOWN state. Use debug as follows
with n being the drive LDEV (2 in my case):
      Debug
      >msec #n.0,8
      >msec #n.100,40
      >exit
There will be a lot of prompts for each line and enter zero to each one.
This resets the drive header information.
  6. Go into VOLUTIL. Use the NEWVOL command to add the drive to the volume
set. CAUTION: Use a different Member name so that you won't get a duplicate
member name message and have to start all over (like I did). I used Membr2
instead of Member2. Exit VOLUTIL. DSTAT ALL should show the new drive
properly.
  7. You should be able to finish the rest of the checklist J steps to
restore the backup and finish the Install and reboot. There are steps that
give you the option of using DIRECTORY for the restore or BULDJOB1 and 2 to
get your accounting structure completed. I restored [log in to unmask]@.@ and streamed
the two jobs. Then I restored the rest of my files with KEEP and OLDDATE.
  8. Everything works OK now.

Sorry if anyone is disappointed this doesn't concern politics or religion.
But, you'll get over it.

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