On 9 Sep 2018, at 08:54, Keith Halewood <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org> wrote: What about [sys0.syscommon.sysmaint] ? I?m not close to my simh vaxen at the moment. 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 > > -- > Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus > || on a psychedelic trip > email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books > pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

Hi. On 2018-09-09 17:54, Keith Halewood wrote: Nothing there. I also checked the distribution CD, and there is nothing there either, unless it's in some saveset. Johnny got irritated enough at the limitation of some diagnostics that I decided to read up a bit. 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. 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. 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? all the tools for RA disks are also interesting. I'm not sure if our current versions would handle an RA73 either. 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 Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol