RE: Cloning drives, et al: Once upon a time we had an Eagle drive that had a minor head crash. The damaged portion of the disc happened to be a critical location that MPE needed to write at mount time. Since the write wouldn't work or couldn't be verified with a follow-up read, we were sunk. I had a spare Eagle on the floor (a day later it would have been shipped) off to a reseller). So we wired it up, went into volutil, and did a copyvol. This performs a disc clone for idential drives. We swapped LDEV numbers in SYSGEN, rebooted, and everything came back to life. [ from the volutil on-line help = notice that this wouldn't work for MPEXL volume set drives, unless someone knows how to put an active system drive in an UNKNOWN state and still run volutil from it :-> ] volutil: help copyvol Description: The COPYVOL command makes a bitwise copy of the contents of the source volume on the destination volume. The source volume must be mounted in the LONER, SCRATCH, or UNKNOWN state and the destination volume must be mounted in the SCRATCH or UNKNOWN state as displayed by the :DSTAT command. Syntax: volutil: COPYVOL [FROM=]from_ldev [TO=]to_ldev Example: volutil: COPYVOL 15 16 volutil: -- ======================================================================= Guy Smith Voice: 804-527-4000 ext 6664 Circuit City Stores, Inc. FAX: 804-527-4008 9950 Mayland Drive E-Mail: [log in to unmask] Richmond, VA 23233-1464 Private E-Mail: [log in to unmask] The thoughts expressed herein are mine and do not reflect those of my employer, or anyone with common sense.