Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!CCMAIL.SUNYSB.EDU!RMALOUF From: RMALOUF@CCMAIL.SUNYSB.EDU (Rob Malouf) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Cluster-wide tape drives Message-ID: <8807081405.AA16323@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 23 Jun 88 18:52:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 20 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