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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 5 Sep 1998 11:55:11 +0200
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At 16:20 04.09.98 -0700, Steve wrote:
>You shouldn't have to do anything in :SYSGEN to configure "fake" printer
>devices. Just go into :NMMGR and create a fraudulent DTC (probably a 48 or a
>72 so you have lots of ports), fill it up with 8-port phantom cards if it's
>a 48, and assign those ultralightweight ports the LDEV numbers you want to
>use.

Using a dummy DTC in NMMGR instead of dummy printers in SYSGEN should also
have the very nice side effect of shortening your START NORECOVERY time as
the I/O configuration phase will not have to wait (until timeout) for some
response from the non-existent devices...

Lars.

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