Re: Alphastation 600 - format hard drive
- From: marcperez@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 24 Oct 2006 14:16:43 -0700
Hoff Hoffman wrote:
marcperez@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
How do you format a hard drive in SRM. I'm trying to install openvms on
an AlphaStation 600. But I can't install it until I format the drive. A
show dev command shows the single internal scsi hard drive fine. Will
the openvms cd allow me to format the hard drive before installing the
system on the hard drive?
What exactly do you mean by "can't install it until I format the drive"?
OpenVMS doesn't have that particular requirement on any SCSI or IDE/ATA disk
device I've encountered, and the installation off the CD generally deals with
this for you entirely transparently. Just install OpenVMS on the disk.
From this, I might easily infer that you have an unsupported disk, or a bus
error or some other hardware problem or configuration issue arising here, and
that you've seen some sort of error messages and/or an unsupported device and/or
unsupported version for the configuration, or some other sort of error.
Would you mind posting additional details around what you have? What would
be the OpenVMS Alpha version, the particulars of the target system disk device
and the related I/O configuration, error message text, what installation
operation(s) and/or command(s) have you tried, etc.
My apologies. It took me awhile, but you were correct. VMS took care of
the formatting for me. It turned out I had a defective cd-rom drive. It
wasn't really defective, but it was too old for reading recent cd-r's.
It turns out that VMS was crashing half way through the install. I
replaced the drive with a newer one and the install went fine. Thanks
for you help.
.
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