Oh! I guess I read through everything you wrote too fast! :-) I hope they get it right, and I also hope that when they get it working it will work with things such as FreeNAS, as that could lower my electricity bill.
Zane
At 3:27 PM +0000 1/20/10, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Like I said, that isn't true, I misread the documentation, actually I was reading the wrong document :)
But when I tried to launch the initiator on CHIMPY, it crashed, hard. Took out the box and rebooted.
Then again, I suppose this is what field tests are for :)
Sampsa
On 20 Jan 2010, at 15:24, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 10:48 AM +0000 1/20/10, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Alas, CHIMP is an Alpha, and the iSCSI kit is only supported on I64. I will potentially try to do an upgrade on RHESUS this weekend - I'll let you guys know how I got along..
BLEEP!!!! Alpha support for iSCSI was supposed to be in V8.4. I would say this is what happen when you dump most of VMS engineering and outsouce the work.
Zane
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Gerry,
If they are less than responsive, I'm happy to share the goodies, just drop me a line. :)
Sampsa
On 20 Jan 2010, at 15:14, gerry77 at mail.com wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:55:17 +0000, you wrote:
I talked to a guy called John Egolf <John.Egolf at hp.com>, he sent me
the credentials to pull down the install.
Looking for that name with Google yields a link to a page of the HP DSPP
program about the 8.4 field test, in which they offer the opportunity to
become a field test site for the new OpenVMS version.
Sampsa, did you go through an formal request to HP or had some informal
contact with that John Egolf? I'm wondering if they will accept a poor
hobbyist as an official test site... :)
The address I've found with Google is http://tinyurl.com/fieldtest84
(shortened: the original is at the end of this message.)
Thank you very much,
G.
http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.863c3e4cbcdc3f3515b49c1…
Like I said, that isn't true, I misread the documentation, actually I was reading the wrong document :)
But when I tried to launch the initiator on CHIMPY, it crashed, hard. Took out the box and rebooted.
Then again, I suppose this is what field tests are for :)
Sampsa
On 20 Jan 2010, at 15:24, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 10:48 AM +0000 1/20/10, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Alas, CHIMP is an Alpha, and the iSCSI kit is only supported on I64. I will potentially try to do an upgrade on RHESUS this weekend - I'll let you guys know how I got along..
BLEEP!!!! Alpha support for iSCSI was supposed to be in V8.4. I would say this is what happen when you dump most of VMS engineering and outsouce the work.
Zane
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| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
I registered through the formal channel but as I'm not a proper DSPP partner / client, John gave me access as a hobbyist.
Sampsa
On 20 Jan 2010, at 15:14, gerry77 at mail.com wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:55:17 +0000, you wrote:
I talked to a guy called John Egolf <John.Egolf at hp.com>, he sent me
the credentials to pull down the install.
Looking for that name with Google yields a link to a page of the HP DSPP
program about the 8.4 field test, in which they offer the opportunity to
become a field test site for the new OpenVMS version.
Sampsa, did you go through an formal request to HP or had some informal
contact with that John Egolf? I'm wondering if they will accept a poor
hobbyist as an official test site... :)
The address I've found with Google is http://tinyurl.com/fieldtest84
(shortened: the original is at the end of this message.)
Thank you very much,
G.
http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.863c3e4cbcdc3f3515b49c1…
At 10:48 AM +0000 1/20/10, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Alas, CHIMP is an Alpha, and the iSCSI kit is only supported on I64. I will potentially try to do an upgrade on RHESUS this weekend - I'll let you guys know how I got along..
BLEEP!!!! Alpha support for iSCSI was supposed to be in V8.4. I would say this is what happen when you dump most of VMS engineering and outsouce the work.
Zane
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| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
At 4:14 PM +0100 1/20/10, gerry77 at mail.com wrote:
Sampsa, did you go through an formal request to HP or had some informal
contact with that John Egolf? I'm wondering if they will accept a poor
hobbyist as an official test site... :)
DEC/Compaq did, no idea on HP. Of course back when I had lots of disposable income I bought a machine, Doc Set, and an OS kit from Compaq as well.
Zane
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| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:55:17 +0000, you wrote:
I talked to a guy called John Egolf <John.Egolf at hp.com>, he sent me
the credentials to pull down the install.
Looking for that name with Google yields a link to a page of the HP DSPP
program about the 8.4 field test, in which they offer the opportunity to
become a field test site for the new OpenVMS version.
Sampsa, did you go through an formal request to HP or had some informal
contact with that John Egolf? I'm wondering if they will accept a poor
hobbyist as an official test site... :)
The address I've found with Google is http://tinyurl.com/fieldtest84
(shortened: the original is at the end of this message.)
Thank you very much,
G.
http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.863c3e4cbcdc3f3515b49c1…
I talked to a guy called John Egolf <John.Egolf at hp.com>, he sent me the credentials to pull down the install.
There was a field test sign up page on hp.com, no idea of the URL anymore though.
Sampsa
On 20 Jan 2010, at 12:51, Mark Wickens wrote:
Hi Guys,
Did I miss the announcement about where to get the field trial for 8.4
from? I'd signed up via the DSPP program, but not heard anything
subsequently.
I might have to fire up the IA64 now - it's bloody freezing in here!
Mark.
Hi Guys,
Did I miss the announcement about where to get the field trial for 8.4
from? I'd signed up via the DSPP program, but not heard anything
subsequently.
I might have to fire up the IA64 now - it's bloody freezing in here!
Mark.
Well my poking around ended as follows:
$ @SYS$STARTUP:ISCSI$INITIATOR_STARTUP.COM
**** OpenVMS Alpha Operating System E8.4 - BUGCHECK ****
** Bugcheck code = 000003C4: SSRVEXCEPT, Unexpected system service exception
** Crash CPU: 00000000 Primary CPU: 00000000 Node Name: CHIMP
** Highest CPU number: 00000003
** Active CPUs: 00000000.00000003
** Current Process: SYSTEM
** Current PSB ID: 00000001
** Image N?
So I'm guessing ISCSI on AXP is a work in progress... :)
Sampsa
On 20 Jan 2010, at 10:50, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Ignore this, turns out the ISCSI documentation I'm looking at is for the ISCSI TDK that was I64 only.
Hmm, might have to have a quick poke around.
Sampsa
On 20 Jan 2010, at 10:48, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Alas, CHIMP is an Alpha, and the iSCSI kit is only supported on I64. I will potentially try to do an upgrade on RHESUS this weekend - I'll let you guys know how I got along..
Sampsa
On 20 Jan 2010, at 02:10, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 11:27 PM +0000 1/17/10, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I pulled down the 8.4 field test from HP and installed it on CHIMP, if anyone wants a play, let me know and I'll set up accounts.
Any idea how well iSCSI works? Will it work with something like FreeNAS?
Zane
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| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
