Hi.
On 2018-09-09 17:54, Keith Halewood wrote:
What about [sys0.syscommon.sysmaint] ?
I?m not close to my simh vaxen at the moment.
Nothing there. I also checked the distribution CD, and there is nothing
there either, unless it's in some saveset.
Johnny
Keith
> On 9 Sep 2018, at 08:50, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
> 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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