HPINSTAL supports two types of CD-ROM drives: HP-IB and SCSI
drives. SCSI drives are the only ones available for purchase at
this time.
Loading CD-ROM Disks |
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The CD-ROM disk volumes are sent in a plastic case. If your
system has a caddy, load them into the CD-ROM drive, you need to
remove the disk from the case and put it into the appropriate caddy
for your CD-ROM drive. You can then load the CD-ROM disk into the
drive.
Mounting CD-ROM Disks |
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Disks loaded into HP-IB drives are automatically recognized
by the system and put online. When using an HP-IB drive, CD-ROM
disks do not need to be mounted by mount commands.
If you are using a SCSI drive, you need to tell the system
to put it online after inserting the CD-ROM. You need to mount CD-ROM
disks onto SCSI drives by entering a mount command.
To mount a CD-ROM disk onto a SCSI drive, use the AVRSCSI MOUNT
command from the INSTALL group:
:HELLO MANAGER.SYS,INSTALL;HIPRI
:AVRSCSI "MOUNT ldev#" |
Where ldev#
is the LDEV number of the device on which you want to mount the
CD-ROM disk. For example, to load a disk onto LDEV 11:
You normally do not have to explicitly dismount the disk.
HPINSTAL handles this for you when
it is done with the disk. If you need to specifically dismount the
disk:
:AVRSCSI "DISMOUNT ldev#" |
Dismounting CD-ROM Disks |
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At times, CD-ROM disks may need to be explicitly dismounted
from the drive. For example, if you are running HPINSTAL
from a terminal other than the system console and you didn't
allow VSCLOSE, you'll have to explicitly
dismount the first disk before you can load the second one into
the CD-ROM drive. You may see the following message:
Unable to close CD-ROM volume volume_name (INSTWARN #8) |
If so, you need to dismount the disk.
To dismount a CD-ROM disk from a SCSI drive:
:HELLO MANAGER.SYS,INSTALL;HIPRI :VSCLOSE volume_set_name :AVRSCSI "DISMOUNT ldev#" |
To dismount a CD-ROM disk from an HP-IB drive:
Checking Volume Set Status |
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To check on the status of the CD-ROM disks, you can use the
DSTAT command. For example:
: DSTAT
LDEV-TYPE STATUS VOLUME (VOLUME SET - GEN)
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11- 017070 LONER HPINSTAL (MPE_C.55.00_1-0)
12- 017070 LONER HPINSTAL (MPE_C.55.00_2-0) |
As shown in the example, the command output lists the logical
device number and type, the drive status, the volume name (the program
name), and the volume set name. The two disks in the example are
not online because the status says LONER.
When they are online, the status reads MASTER-RO.
