We have a 7060 (Multiprise 3000) and we added some tape drives using
dynamic I/O configuration. We then wrote the new IOCDS to the
hardware as A0 and issued the SET ACTIVE_IOCDS A0 command. I did a
query at the time on the 7060's support element and saw that it was
showing the new IOCDS as "active" (although at that time it hadn't
been used in a power-on reset).
This last weekend there was a power outage, so when they did the
power-on reset, I presumed the new IOCDS would be used in the POR
without any operator intervention, but it was not. I had based this
on a sentence in the 4.2 Planning and Administration Guide, in the
"Lock-Step Philosophy" section, item 6, which deals with the SET
IOCDS_ACTIVE command: "The processor will use this active IOCDS file
during the next power-on reset (POR)." I have verified that a POR did occur.
Does anyone know why the 7060 wouldn't have used the new IOCDS
automatically in the POR, as the manual seems to say it should have?
Tom Cluster
County of Sonoma
Santa Rosa, CA
(707) 565-3384 (Tuesdays and Wednesdays only)
