I've been playing around a little with out 8650 lately, and finally got
irritated enough at the limitation of some diagnostics that I decided to
read up a bit.
The problem is that we have a lot of diagnostics for the 8650, however,
they are from around 1990, when the console pack was created. Some
devices, such as RA73 (of which we have a bunch connected) are newer
than that, so our diagnostics do not know about them, and therefore
ignore them.
Reading up on this turned out that the autosized tool, called EVSBA, is
generic and used on all models. And we have version 7.2 on our pack, and
we need to have version 7.5 in order to have it handle RA73 disks.
Reading more, it sounded like these programs would normally live in VMS
as well, under [SYS0.SYSMAINT]. However, the VMS I have, which was
installed from the 7.3 CD distribution, have nothing in [SYS0.SYSMAINT],
so now my obvious question is, do anyone have "modern" versions of the
diagnostics programs?
EVSBA would be one obvious one I'm looking for, but EVRL* which are all
the tools for RA disks are also interesting. I'm not sure if our current
versions would handle an RA73 either.
If people have other bits, that would also be nice. If they are on
HECnet, even better, since if I boot VMS, our 8650 is also on HECnet, so
that would make copying really easy. But if you have them somewhere
else, that's also usable.
Johnny
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Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Greetings,
Time to update those node databases ... BAN.AI Public Access Multics, the premier public access Multics system, has joined HECnet, as node number 1.770 (BANAI).
It's just an initial implementation (based on the Linux DECnet source) and performance is lacking, but I hope to get things better optimized and support more services in the near future.
There are currently 16 outgoing channels for HECnet connections, and up to 128 dynamically allocated incoming login channels.
Outgoing connections to HECnet are allowed only for registered users, but any incoming login from the Internet or HECnet is permitted, including anonymous Guest users.
For more information, you can visit https://ban.ai/, ssh or mosh to dps8 at m.trnsz.com, or SET HOST to BANAI/1.770.
Feel free to request an account or ask any questions.
--
Jeffrey H. Johnson
jhj at trnsz.comhttps://ban.ai/multicshttp://mim.update.uu.se/hecnet?node=BANAI
.. on HECnet?
Igor Mirvaleev
John Floren
Thierry Dusset
or their nodes ?
2.100 (SEGUE) unreachable
2.150 (LOKI) unreachable
2.201 (SELENE) unreachable
2.300 (LEXX) unreachable
2.301 (DREAM) unreachable
2.302 (BEE) unreachable
I'm looking to purge some obsolete nodes from my database.
Bob
OK, so who is "SANYAL" at node 1.550? If you'd like an account on my RSTS/E
system, all you need do is ask. I'm one of those sys admins who actually
reads his event logs. :)
Regards,
Mark
Hi,
I'm off to Seattle in a few days for a bit of a break. I'll be visiting the Living Computers Museum there to play with their VAX 785, DECSystem 20, etc. while sitting right next to them :)
There may be photos...
Just FYI
Keith
