Sounds like a lot of fun. Perhaps you can work in a WMD reference since this was almost as much trouble...Glad everything is working... Paul Edwards wrote: > 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. > > *************************************************************** > CDR Paul Edwards USNR Ret. HP 3000/9000 Certified Consultant > Paul Edwards & Associates Phone: (972) 242-6660 > 1506 Estates Way Fax : (972) 446-9022 > Carrollton TX 75006 Cel : (214) 384-8728 > Email: [log in to unmask] Web : www.peassoc.com > *************************************************************** > > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * > * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *