On 19/08/2016 09:56, "Peter Coghlan" <cct...@beyondthepale.ie> wrote:
>>> >>> Does Autogen recognize new hardware? >>> >> Yes, definitely. Some older devices have switches (or even >> soldered jumpers) to set the CSR address. If some of these >> are wrong, it could mess up the automatic address assignment >> of later MSCP hardware. >> > > Not exactly. > > VMS automatically looks for and initialises I/O devices at startup > time. (There are exceptions to this but these do not come into > play in this particular situation.) > > Autogen is another thing entirely. It is a tool which you run > manually to set system parameters. You don't have to run autogen > to pick up changes in your I/O setup. You just have to have your > device configured the way VMS expects them to be and VMS will find > them when you boot. It won't if you do a minimum/conversational boot (STARTUP_P1 set to "MIN"), devices won't be discovered unless the STARTUP CONFIGURE process runs. After a minimum boot you need to MC SYSGEN AUTO ALL/LOG to pick up devices. Or just do a full boot. -- Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer collection?
