meltie wrote:

>On Wednesday 10 March 2004 12:30, meltie wrote:
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>>Hi again guys :)
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>>I've got myself a storageworks shelf (with floor-stand hardware and the
>>smoked doors :D ) that has 3 SBBs and a HSD05 DSSI<->SCSI unit. It's
>>hooked up to my 4000/200 with a KFQSA MSCP DSSI card, and i've set it up
>>so that I can SET HOST/DUP/UQSSP/DISK 0 into the HSD05 and run all the
>>setup utils and toys there.
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>>However, I don't know how to partition these disks under NetBSD - i've
>>had a bit of a fiddle with disklabel but quite frankly I get a bit lost,
>>and most of the time disklabel locks up on me anyway - I suspect this is
>>because it cannot know the true geometry of the disk it is talking to,
>>but that's just a supposition...
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>>The three disks I have appear to the VAX firmware as DIS610, DUA620 and
>>DUA630 - all appearing as RF72 disks, and the VAX is netbooting NetBSD
>>1.5.2.
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>>Can anyone explain to me how I can get these babies formatted so I can
>>eventually install NetBSD on them?
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>>TIA
>>alex/melt
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>C'mon guys, no-one here can explain how to format an ra* drive?
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>:(
>alex/melt
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OK, this is my understanding of the problem, based on what I have 
learned from my hobbyist VAX cluster at home.  I am not an expert on 
VAX/VMS systems.

A DSSI device (disk or HSD controller) is not like a SCSI disk or MSCP 
controller.  A DSSI device is a "node" just like a VAX or Alpha system 
or CI controller, such as the HSC50.  The DSSI device does not use MSCP, 
but uses the SCS protocol, the same protocol that VAX and Alpha systems 
and CI controllers use in a cluster.

If you want to see SCS packets you can set up a Local Area VAX Cluster 
(LAVC) and run a packet sniffer.  A LAVC is a cluster that uses a LAN 
(Ethernet or FDDI) as it's "interconnect".

If you want more information you can use google to search comp.os.vms.

Robert