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Article #14Re: VAXcluster Tape Sharing with TMSCP
From: mark
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 15:57
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 15:57
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In article <1d7g62INNbt6@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ah442@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Erik C. Orange) writes: > > Hi. Has anyone out there successfully used the TMSCP protocol > to serve tape devices across a VAXcluster? > > I have 2 VAXstation VLCs and 1 VAXstation 3100 in LAVC; all are > running VMS 5.5-1. All have SCSI drives, which are served to all > nodes in the cluster. > > Today I connected an 8mm tape drive (from TTi) to one of the VLCs, > and the device shows up locally, but not across the cluster. The > TMSCP server is enabled on all nodes, and the SYSGEN parameter > TMSCP_LOAD = 1 for good measure, even though that is the default > setting for all nodes. The tape drive is also SCSI and works fine > on the local node. The TMSCP server ONLY works for TMSCP tape devices (i.e. ones with device names of MU). This restriction may be removed sometime in the future, but for now we are stuck with it. -- Mark Pizzolato - INFO COMM Computer Consulting, Redwood City, Ca PHONE: (415)369-9366 UUCP: decwrl!infopiz!mark or uunet!lupine!infopiz!mark DOMAIN: mark@infocomm.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!know!mips2!cass.ma02.bull.com!think.com!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!decwrl!decwrl!infopiz!mark From: mark@infocomm.com Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc Subject: Re: VAXcluster Tape Sharing with TMSCP Message-ID: <1992Nov4.085759.18098@infocomm.com> Date: 4 Nov 92 15:57:59 GMT References: <1d7g62INNbt6@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Organization: INFO COMM - Computer Consulting, Redwood City, Ca Lines: 24