bierma@nprdc.arpa (02/19/87)
Greetings,
We just received an FCO from DEC for our 11/780's. It performs an
upgrade to "Revision 8 or 8B". Quoting from the document
New FPLA pattern is required to support WCS 125 microcode.
New microcode fixes problems with EDITPC EO$ADJUST_INPUT,
ASHP, XFC, MOVP, CALLS/CALLG, REI, REMQUE, and RET
instrustions.
The package contains a ROM, some jumpers, and a new console floppy.
Has anyone else had the FCO put in? Does it break 4.3BSD?
--Larry ARPA: bierma@nprdc.arpa
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"Dyslexics of the World UNTIE!"richl@penguin.UUCP (02/25/87)
In article <4535@brl-adm.ARPA> bierma@nprdc.arpa writes: > We just received an FCO from DEC for our 11/780's. It performs an > upgrade to "Revision 8 or 8B". Quoting from the document > > New FPLA pattern is required to support WCS 125 microcode. > New microcode fixes problems with EDITPC EO$ADJUST_INPUT, > ASHP, XFC, MOVP, CALLS/CALLG, REI, REMQUE, and RET > instrustions. It was recently installed on a Vax 780 here, with no adverse effects yet (it's only been installed for 5 days.) Our hardware guys tell us this is an all or nothing sort of thing anyway -- if it will fail, it will likely fail bigtime and immediate, which it hasn't. Rick
fosterm@ogcvax.UUCP (02/26/87)
We recently had the Rev 8 FCO installed on our 11/780. The installation did require getting the system up to Rev 7 first (for whatever reason we were down several Rev levels). Not only were there no problems, but a kernel we had been having trouble booting came right up following the Rev 8 conversion. -- Mark Foster CSE Systems Support Oregon Graduate Center
ktureski@omnitor.UUCP (02/27/87)
> We just received an FCO from DEC for our 11/780's. It performs an > upgrade to "Revision 8 or 8B". Quoting from the document > > New FPLA pattern is required to support WCS 125 microcode. > New microcode fixes problems with EDITPC EO$ADJUST_INPUT, > ASHP, XFC, MOVP, CALLS/CALLG, REI, REMQUE, and RET > instrustions. > > The package contains a ROM, some jumpers, and a new console floppy. > Has anyone else had the FCO put in? Does it break 4.3BSD? DEC just did the same on our 780 (running 4.2BSD). The only trick is to make sure that wcs125.pat gets loaded off the floppy instead of wcs124.pat. We've modified our boot floppy, so I arff'ed wcs125.pat off the new, and put it on the old. But having both wcs124.pat and wcs125.pat didn't work -- wcs124.pat got loaded anyway. Once I removed wc124.pat, everything was fine. I've got another boot floppy with wcs124.pat in case we ever get an old ROM in. Kevin Tureski Omnibus Computer Graphics Inc. 2180 Yonge St. Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4S 2B9 416-489-6020 UUCP: {allegra,decvax,ihnp4}!watmath!omnitor!ktureski