Hello All,
I recently acquired/rescued a rack of Alphaserver gear that was going to get scrapped. In the rack is two ES45 servers (with no local drive cages), and a 3-shelf HSG80 Fibre Channel disk system. There were no drives, but I have plenty of this form factor and so I?ve fully populated all three shelves.
The original system apparently ran Tru64 Unix, but I don?t have much interest in that. I?d love to get the two machines running in an OpenVMS cluster.
I?ve managed to figure out the HSG80 array, and I am serving up acouple of FC LUNs. I can verify this because I?ve got wwidmgr on the Alpha?s to see and create a drive (dgb2).
However, when I attempt to boot OpenVMS Alpha 8.4 from CD-ROM, the install process doesn?t recognize the FC drive and offer it as an installation target.
Is anyone familiar with this generation of gear and possibly give me a pointer or two about what I might be doing wrong?
Perhaps I need a newer OpenVMS install? Is there ISO images of various versions lurking around hecNET that anyone is willing to share?
Thanks for any suggestions!
Ian
