[vcf-midatlantic] Replicating Boot Drive, VAX

william degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 21:12:45 EST 2015


Reading up about VAX 4000 support.  I have a three drive 4000-200 in the
BA430 enclosure.  It also has a tape drive and ethernet device

Question - Do you formerly MARCH and now VCFedgerationites who are also VAX
users with similar systems maintain more than one bootable drive as a rule
of thumb?  I am not detecting any issues with my primary drive but I don't
want to take chances.

Just curious what kinds of support strategy ideas you may have.  I have the
manuals and have been reading up on backups, etc.

I just got a new hard drive and I need to replace a bad drive, amd I was
thinking now would be a good time to set as the 2nd bootable drive, before
I put anything on it.  I thus could experiment with one drive knowing I
have a fall-back that will boot.  I am also reading up about how the three
drives worth together, it's not as simple as "three independent hard
drives" as far as I can tell.  Interesting and complex file system.
-- 
Bill



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