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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