Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ingr!b11!xenon!simpson
From: simpson@xenon.UUCP (Charles Simpson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Cluster-wide tape drives
Summary: not possible
Message-ID: <74@xenon.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 88 21:11:13 GMT
References: <8807081405.AA16323@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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In article <8807081405.AA16323@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, RMALOUF@CCMAIL.SUNYSB.EDU (Rob Malouf) writes:
> Hello,
> 
>      Is there any way to make a non-HSC tape drive available to an entire 
> cluster?  We have a TU81+ tape drive on our VAX 8530, and we would like people
> to be able to access the tape drives from the workstations we have LAVCed to
> it.  Our disk drives are served to the cluster using MSCP, and work perfectly.
> The tape drive shows up on the 8530 as a clusterish device (i.e., a device name
> of SBMS01$MUA0:, where SBMS01 is the node name of our 8530), but doesn't show
> up on any of the other nodes at all.  According to SHOW DEVICE/FULL, the tape
> drive is "available to cluster", but I can't seem to get at it.  This isn't a
> major problem, since users can always SET HOST into the 8530 from the 
> workstations, but would prefer not to have to do that.  I have been studying
> the manuals, but I can't seem to find any mention of cluster-wide non-HSC
> tape drives.  What have I missed?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Rob Malouf
> Marine Sciences Research Center
> State University of New York
> Stony Brook, NY  11794-5000
> RMALOUF@SBCCMAIL.BITNET


Sorry but I have just taken a VAXCluster System Manager class and there is no
way to serve a local tape subsystem to the cluster.  The only way to access 
your tape subsystem on your 8530, is to login to the 8530.  According to
the instructor, there are efforts to get this problem fixed.  I am not
holding my breath.  The class is for VAX/VMS 5.0 clusters.



These thoughts are my own.


Charles Simpson
Sr. Sys. Eng.
Intergraph Corporation
Huntsville, Al.  
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