Just FYI, my part of HECnet is down - the box on which my bridge and the GORVAX SIMH instance run has mysteriously gone offline and I'm about 3 megameters away from power cycling it.
Luckily my slightly dizzy yet helpful flatmate should be returning this evening - I will take my chances and ask her to powercycle the box..
Sampsa
On 24.12.2009 18:16, Dan Williams wrote:
I picked up a Dell integrity server on ebay for 20. Anyone know if
this will run Openvms. Also as there is not media for Integrity yet
does anyone have access to it ?.
Thanks
Dan
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Hi Dan,
I've run OpenVMS on several different types of HP Integrity servers, but not on Dell HW. It could work theoretically, but there might be many reason why not. First and maybe most important reason is that there need to be drivers for the HW components of the server. E.g. SCSI adapters, LAN adapters, graphics adapters, etc. I'm quite sure that OpenVMS Engineering hasn't tested OpenVMS on any other servers than HP Integrity servers. Therefore there might not be suitable drivers for other brands. Then there might be slight differences in the EFI firmware as well.
It would be very interesting to find out if it possible to run OpenVMS on other than HP platforms, though.
I do also have the OpenVMS I64 media. I could make a copy of it if you want. Please contact me privately if you want one.
Best Regards,
Kari
Guys,
I'm running 8.3 on my Itanium box (RHESUS). I'll dig out the media once I get back to Blighty.
Sampsa
On 25 Dec 2009, at 04:17, Gregg Levine wrote:
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Dan Williams <williams.dan at gmail.com> wrote:
I picked up a Dell integrity server on ebay for 20. Anyone know if
this will run Openvms. Also as there is not media for Integrity yet
does anyone have access to it ?.
Thanks
Dan
Hello!
I don't at the moment, I don't know of course if anyone else does. My
guess is that the kit(s) are still considered to be regular items, as
opposed to hobbyist only as HP believes the Alpha and VAX ones are.
Also do you mind supplying us with a photo or two of the thing some place?
I had the same problem, the HP version was available here at an
absurdly low price at a shop I frequent via their website. What
stopped me wasn't the money, it was that reason.
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On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Dan Williams <williams.dan at gmail.com> wrote:
I picked up a Dell integrity server on ebay for 20. Anyone know if
this will run Openvms. Also as there is not media for Integrity yet
does anyone have access to it ?.
Thanks
Dan
Hello!
I don't at the moment, I don't know of course if anyone else does. My
guess is that the kit(s) are still considered to be regular items, as
opposed to hobbyist only as HP believes the Alpha and VAX ones are.
Also do you mind supplying us with a photo or two of the thing some place?
I had the same problem, the HP version was available here at an
absurdly low price at a shop I frequent via their website. What
stopped me wasn't the money, it was that reason.
--
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
I picked up a Dell integrity server on ebay for 20. Anyone know if
this will run Openvms. Also as there is not media for Integrity yet
does anyone have access to it ?.
Thanks
Dan
Mark Wickens wrote:
Sorry, guys - that reply-to is always catching me out.
I suppose it might be worth opening the query up to the list anyway -
any good reason why I shouldn't be able to connect the Digital UNIX
implementation of DECnet/OSI to HECnet?
The Software Product Description attached to the previous email has more
details of the implementation.
Regards, Mark.
Should work just fine.
People have been running DECnet Phase V on VMS systems on HECnet. This
is no different.
I don't know if DECnet Phase V also use some other ethernet protocol
number for V <-> V communication, but when talking with Phase IV nodes,
it's the same standard protocol number as it has been all along.
(The question of the reply-to field is a never-ending story of pros and
cons of one or the other... :-) )
Johnny
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Sorry, guys - that reply-to is always catching me out.
I suppose it might be worth opening the query up to the list anyway -
any good reason why I shouldn't be able to connect the Digital UNIX
implementation of DECnet/OSI to HECnet?
The Software Product Description attached to the previous email has more
details of the implementation.
Regards, Mark.
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Actually, it might be worth casting your eye over the SPD to see if this
implementation of DECnet would be supported by your bridge.
I've attached the SPD.
Regards, Mark.
Anyone have a copy of the SPL for Ultrix Vax online anywhere. I was
sure I had it on cd somewhere, but I can't find it. Something late
would be good. I've got 4.5 installed.
Thanks
Dan
At 3:21 PM +0000 12/10/09, Mark Wickens wrote:
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 07:16 -0800, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> I'm curious, what is so special about v3.4c? I ran v5.something
briefly, but that was about 10 years ago, and I don't remember if I
ever had it talking DECnet.
Nothing, especially, except that it was the version I used on the very
same machine I'll be installing it on - between 1994 and 1997.
Okay, that makes sense.
Oh, well, possibly the fact that is says DIGITAL rather than Compaq.
Does that make it special? ;)
Yes.
Zane
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