SYSRUTH@UTORPHYS.BITNET.UUCP (02/14/87)
For those of you running PSI and thinking of upgrading to
4.5 (or those of you who have), the following two messages may be
of interest. The first is a statement of a problem, the second is
its solution (a patch from DEC). I have just ordered the patch
myself. We are not at 4.5 yet, and I am not going until it arrives.
Maybe we won't have any problems, but PSI is very heavily used
here and I'd rather not find out the hard way that we will.
Ruth Milner
Systems Manager
U. of Toronto Physics
SYSRUTH@UTORPHYS (BITNET)
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Send-date: Thursday, February 5, 1987 at 13:35 GMT+0330
From: Brian Power <power@garfield.mun.cdn>
To: <demco@ean.ubc.cdn> [confirm]
Subject: DMF32 driver problems
Please pass this on to the VMS sites.
The XGDRIVER shipped with VMS 4.5 and used by PSI has a bug that
crashes VMS with either a Unibus map register allocation failure
or an invalid stack exception.
If you are using the sync port of a DMF32 don't upgrade to 4.5
until the patch arrives. I am waiting for mine now. I'll post the
patch number when it arrives.
Brian Power
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Send-date: Tuesday, February 10, 1987 at 12:48 GMT+0330
From: Brian Power <power@garfield.mun.cdn>
To: <demco@ean.ubc.cdn>
Subject: dmf32 driver
The patch for the dmf32 driver arrived yesterday. The documentation claims
that the patch fixed problems with the VMS 3721, 2780, and 3780 Protocol
Emulator as well as UBMAPEXECED bugchecks. Anyone who needs the patch can
contact the Colorado Software Support Center and ask for the
VMS 4.5 XGDRIVER patch.
To those who responded that you didn't have a problem, you should thank your
lucky stars!! We had as many as 5 crashes a day! The only thing that I think
of is the rev level of the DMF32 board was out of date!!
Brian Power