9 Sep
2018
9 Sep
'18
6:13 p.m.
Diags didn't ship with VMS.? They were DEC proprietary and wiped when a customer was
off DEC maintenance.
The tape was called Vaxpax and at the 8650 VMS 4.2 time frame they needed compatibility
mode to run.? I left DEC in '86 and the third party TRW diags were not as impressive.?
Alliant and Masscomp built similar diag supervisors which were better than stuff I saw on
machines like Concurrent/Perkin-Elmer boxes... XXDP/DEC 11 was better than their diags.
Bill
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On Sep 9, 2018, 12:01, at 12:01, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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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