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Re: Mystery drive keep showing up after reboot

 
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Jorge Cocomess
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Mystery drive keep showing up after reboot

Greetings,

I have this drive dka300 labeled as disk19 keep on mounting after a reboot even though I had replaced with a new drive dga19 labeled as disk19 in SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM. I had search the entire SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM and for the old dka300 and find nothing for it. So, when the old drive mounted first, which caused a conflict with the label name.

Where else can this mystery drive hidden and why can't I find it??

Version VMS 7.3-2 on ES45 server.

Please help!! I am going nuts trying to find this dka300 disk device.

Thank you in advance.

Jorge
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Hakan Zanderau ( Anders
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Re: Mystery drive keep showing up after reboot

Jorge,

You can log the entire boot by setting the sysgen-parameter STARTUP_P2 = "VDC"

$ MC SYSMAN STARTUP SET OPTION/VERIFY/OUTPUT=FILE/CHECKPOINTING

The next boot will create the logfile SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP.LOG

Then you can search the logfile for the MOUNT-command.

regards,

Hakan Zanderau
HA-solutions
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Vladimir Fabecic
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Re: Mystery drive keep showing up after reboot

> Where else can this mystery drive hidden and why can't I find it??

Maybe in some other command procedure.
What does
$ sea *.com dka300
say?
In vino veritas, in VMS cluster
Uwe Zessin
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Re: Mystery drive keep showing up after reboot

It is not unusual to do some MOUNTs in SYCONFIG or SYLOGICALS, or the MOUNT happens in a completely different procedure that is called from SYSTARTUP_VMS.

Have you watched the system boot sequence to look at what time the mount happens?

If nothing helps, you need to search through all disks, e.g.
$ search sys$sysdevice:[000000...]*.com; dka300
.
Jan van den Ende
Honored Contributor

Re: Mystery drive keep showing up after reboot

Jorge,

Uwe wrote
>>>
If nothing helps, you need to search through all disks, e.g.
$ search sys$sysdevice:[000000...]*.com; dka300
<<<
... and if you need to go there, then you should also look for any DEFINE of a name for DKA300.
You just MIGHT have to repeat the search sequence for any such name.
I HAVE been to a site that had about a dozen names defined for some of the disks, which then were used in, eh, "rather creative" ways.

Just in case...

Prooost.

Have one on me.

jpe
Don't rust yours pelled jacker to fine doll missed aches.
GuentherF
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Re: Mystery drive keep showing up after reboot

Jorge,

guessing what you have. You do a "SHOW DEVICE" and a DKA300 is listed as mounted (system?) with a label of DISK19. But you think there should be no DKA300 on your SCSI bus?

Then you see a new DGA19 mounted (system?) with a label of DISK19? So this is a Fibre Channel connected disk? And DKA300 and DGA19 are both mounted and have the same label?

Is this node in a cluster? Or standalone?

/Guenther
GuentherF
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Re: Mystery drive keep showing up after reboot

Jorge,

guessing what you have. You do a "SHOW DEVICE" and a DKA300 is listed as mounted (system?) with a label of DISK19. But you think there should be no DKA300 on your SCSI bus?

Then you see a new DGA19 mounted (system?) with a label of DISK19? So this is a Fibre Channel connected disk? And DKA300 and DGA19 are both mounted and have the same label?

Is this node in a cluster? Or standalone? Are there other disks on this node's SCSI bus?

/Guenther
The Brit
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Re: Mystery drive keep showing up after reboot

Jorge,
Is it possible that the dka300 drive once held pagefiles or swapfiles?

If so, the mount might have been included in SYS$SPECIFIC:[SYSMGR]SYPAGSWPFILES.COM, which executes before the startup gets to SYSTARTUP_VMS. This allows page and swapfiles to be installed very early in the startup procedure, particularly if they are not on the system disk.

Dave.
Jorge Cocomess
Super Advisor

Re: Mystery drive keep showing up after reboot

I've searched the entire system drive and I could not come up with the drive.

I will continue to look through the pagefile com procedure and "define" procedures if I can find it.

Thanks you all for great suggestions.

Oh by the way, this is a standalone server.

Thank you!!

Jorge
Guenther Froehlin
Valued Contributor

Re: Mystery drive keep showing up after reboot

C'mon Jorge, tell us more details. Is it that you see a DKA300 from the SHOW DEVICE or, is it you see a (failed) MOUNT of that device during the boot?

/Guenther