PCSI Installation issue

[Deepak kumar_3]

Hi,

I have burned .PCSI file on CD. After mounting this CD trying to issue the command
$Product install *
it is coming out with error
%PCSI-E-WRITEERR, error writing DQA0:[000000]XX-I64VMS-XXX-V0201--1.PCSI;1
-SYSTEM-F-WRITLCK, write lock error
%PCSI-E-S_OPFAIL, operation failed
%PCSIUI-E-ABORT, operation terminated due to an unrecoverable error condition


however if i copy this .pcsi file to local directory and issuing the command
$pro ins *
it is working fine.

Any body know what may be the problem. Machine is OVMS Itanium.

Deepak

[Thomas Ritter]

You may need to change the $ mount command you issued.

Something like this
MOUNT/MEDIA=CD/UNDEFINED=(FIXED:CR:9216)/OVER=ID

[Dave Laurier]

The PCSI-E-WRITERR shows that the Product Install utility is attempting to write to the CD.

Have you tried to define the destination manually?

$ PRODUCT INSTALL * /DESTINATION=:

By default the Product Install utility will install the product files to your current default device.

You may also define the logical name PCSI$DESTINATION instead of adding the /DESTINATION qualifier to the command.

Best regards,

Dave Laurier

[Dave Laurier]

I was wrong when I stated "by default the PCSI utility will install to your default device".

The default device is used when specifying a destination without a device-name but with a directory name.

By default the PCSI utility will install the product files to SYS$SYSDEVICE:[VMS$COMMON].

[Karl Rohwedder]

Perhaps a SET DEFAULT to a writable directory and doing PROD INS * /SOU=DQA0:... will help?

regards Kalle

[Deepak kumar_3]

Still i am getting same error.
how to burn CD is ODS format at present i am burning in ISO format.

[Duncan Morris]

Deepak,

using your original CD, please show us the output from

$ set default sys$login
$ show default
$ mount/over=id dqa0:
$ show device/full dqa0:
$ prod install */source=dqa0:[000000]

This will show us the exact error you get when set up as Karl and other have suggested.

Reagdrs,

Duncan

[Deepak kumar_3]

$ set def sys$login
$ show def
SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]
= SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]
= SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]
$ show device/full dqa0:

Disk IA641$DQA0:, device type DW-28E, is online, allocated, deallocate on
dismount, mounted, software write-locked, file-oriented device, shareable,
available to cluster, error logging is enabled.

Error count 0 Operations completed 14674
Owner process "_FTA1:" Owner UIC [SYSTEM]
Owner process ID 00000422 Dev Prot S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G:R,W
Reference count 2 Default buffer size 512
Total blocks 403224 Sectors per track 25
Total cylinders 646 Tracks per cylinder 25

Volume label "asderf" Relative volume number 1
Cluster size 0 Transaction count 1
Free blocks 0 Maximum files allowed 0
Extend quantity 0 Mount count 1
Mount status Process ACP process name "DQA0CACP"

Volume Status: ISO 9660.
Members of this volume set are IA641$DQA0: (rvn 1).

$ pro ins * /source=dqa0:[000000]
%PCSI-E-WRITEERR, error writing DQA0:[000000]XX-I64VMS-XXXX-V0201--1.PCSI;1
-SYSTEM-F-WRITLCK, write lock error
%PCSI-E-S_OPFAIL, operation failed
%PCSIUI-E-ABORT, operation terminated due to an unrecoverable error condition
$

[Thomas Ritter]

Deepak, describe how you created the CD ? Provide as much detail as possible.

[Deepak kumar_3]

1. The kit provided is first copied on to a n IBM-AIX machine.
2. Then we go to a specific directory in which all the files of which the iso image has to be made are copied.
3. mkisofs utility with relevant options is then used so as to make an image.
4.
" mkisofs -N -R -v -V "xxxx" - o /home/xxxx/xxxx.iso ./ " This is the command used to make the image..
5.It is then brought back to the windows machine using ftp.
6.It is then burned with NERO Start Smart

[Thomas Ritter]

Deepak, why not just perform the disk copy on the pc ? Use nero for a disk to disk copy and then mount on VMS. I'm about 90% certain the errors are format related. We have made many copies of CD for system upgrades. Each was simply copied on the PC.

[Thomas Ritter]

Please try this and report the results

$ dump/record DQA0:[000000]XX-I64VMS-XXX-V0201--1.PCSI;1

I suspect you may get the same error message.

[Deepak kumar_3]

$ dump/record DQA0:[000000]XX-AXPVMS-XX-V0203--1.PCSI;1
%DUMP-E-READERR, error reading DQA0:[000000]XX-AXPVMS-XX-123--1.PCSI;1
-RMS-F-RER, file read error
-SYSTEM-F-VOLINV, volume is not software enabled