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The Question is: Mr. Wizard, My computer: MicroVAX II OS: VMS 5.5-2 I'm a DEC amateur, so please bear with me in regard to this question. I need to install a new VMS operating system. My MicroVAX has a TX-50 internal tape drive which I intend to use for the install. However, I inherited this computer, and it is still configured as it was when I got it. When I do a show dev/full, I get... "Device WSA0: is offline, record-oriented device, shareable, device is a template only." ...where WSA0 is the tape drive. I've searched the DEC documentation in vain for info on how to get the TX-50 to read/write. a) What is a template device? b) How can I configure to read/write the tape drive? Thank you, Kevin The Answer is : There is no such device as a "TX-50" tape drive, the OpenVMS Wizard will assume that the devie is a TK50. (There is also an RX50 floppy disk device, and the "TX-0" was a predecessor to the PDP-1 system. But there exists no "TX-50" or "TX50" tape device.) The TK50 device is displayed as the device prefix code MU or MK, depending on the host controller involved. On the MicroVAX II, the usual controller is the TQK50, and the TK50 device will typically be named MUA0:. The WSA0: device is the workstation display device, not a tape device. Devices with the prefix WS indicate that the target for a (local or remote) DECwindows display, and the WS-class devices are most commonly accessed, created, and otherwise managed via the DCL commands SET DISPLAY and SHOW DISPLAY. A template device is a code indicating that a particular device is not directly used, but that any attempt to assign a channel to the template device will receive a unique clone. As for the instructions on how to install OpenVMS, please read the available OpenVMS installation instructions -- even reading the OpenVMS VAX V7.2 manual posted on the website will help, though the OpenVMS Wizard strongly recommends installing something more recent than OpenVMS VAX V5.5-2.
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