SRM - exer - disk write protected error

[R. Verkerk · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Before you can write to a disk using the exerciser under SRM you have to write enable it.

something like:
>>> chmod +wr dka0.0.0.17.0

and than write to it

>>>exer -a wr dka0 &

>>> show_status !! show state of exerciser

>>> kill_diags !! stop exercisers

greetings,

Robert Verkerk

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Steven,

SRM seems unix (and thus C) based if you look at the syntax of the commands. So, I still think some quoting could be needed to prevent the downshift.

Wim

[Anton Shterenlikht]

chmod worked, thanks!

chmod command does figure in my SRM help
>>>help

but is not mentioned at all in
http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/download/srm_reference.pdf

Is there a way to let HP/VMS teams know about these SRM documentation discrepancies?

thanks again
anton

[R. Verkerk]

Hello,

If you do a search in the document it is mentioned with the help function.

This (chmod) is a very dangerous command. You could yust delete al info on a system disk. Oops !!

So it is in the help of the console. I don't think HP will do much about it.

greetings,

Robert Verkerk

[Steven Schweda]

WVdW:

> I still think some quoting could be needed
> to prevent the downshift.

What "downshift"? Only the VMS C RTL does
that, and no one here is dealing with the VMS
C RTL. SRM doesn't do it. UNIX (or anything
UNIX-like) doesn't do it.

In any case, it's nice to know the actual
solution to the problem.

[Anton Shterenlikht]

forgive my ignorance, what's downshift?

[Ian Miller.]

in this case downshift means converting letters to lower case. The CRTL does this for command lines unless quoted. DCL upshifts, upcases, makes upper case, the command line.

english - such a flexible language :-)