[comp.sys.hp] Problems with SCG's XRAY+ on Apollo platform

lanceh@mot.com (DX516 Lance Hall) (05/07/91)

A while back I sent this request out but got no responses - thus I am going to try
this again with more facts included.

I have been trying to get Software Components Group's (SCG) XRAY+ functional on the
Apollo platform. For those not familiar with this product, it is a workstation based,
source level symbolic debugger that communicates with SCG's PROBE+ debugger on the
target unit via a serial connection. The XRAY+ configures the serial port correctly
and transmits 2 messages to the target but does not seemingly receive the response
message from the target as seen on the serial data analyzer. The result is that the
workstation is pretty much locked up. Ending the lockup requires a workstation power
cycle (NOT NICE) or having the target unit send junk to XRAY+.

My environment has been either an Apollo DN3000 or Apollo DN2500 running Domain OS
release 10.2. The XRAY+ product was created on a HP/Apollo Series 400 running Domain
OS release 10.3 and tested functional on this system. In addition, XRAY+ was tested
by SCG successfully on an Apollo DN3000 running Domain OS release 10.1. I can get
XRAY+ to run on my Apollo DN3000 if I come up diskless running Domain OS release
10.3 but fails as stated above when running the installed Domain Os release 10.2.

Question 1 - Does anyone else have this configuration functional? Was this product
      really just created for my client company and I am the guinea pig?

Question 2 - Is there something in my configuration of the Apollo workstation that
      I have overlooked? Is there something about creating a product on a newer
      HP/Apollo workstation but running it on an older workstation?

Question 3 - Is there something broken with regard to SYSTEM V emulation of serial
      ports (i.e., open(), ioctl(), fcntl(), read(), write(), or close()) in Domain
      OS release 10.2 but not in 10.1/10.3?

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Reply to comp.sys.apollo or followup address.

Thanks.

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Lance N. Hall
lanceha@i88.isc.com
+1 708 505 9100 x387  (Interactive Systems Corp.)
+1 708 576 0560       (Current client company - Motorola Inc.)
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