thurman@AMES-NAS.ARPA (Bob Thurman) (09/14/85)
Has anyone put a second unibus adapter on a 780 or other Vaxen running System V, Release 2.0 Unix? If so, how was it specified in the config file and what changes are rquired to the source? If this has come up before, please point me to the approximate discussion date and I'll wade through the unix-wizard archives. Email can be sent directly to thurman@ames-nas Bob Thurman, Cray Research, Inc.
wcs@ho95e.UUCP (Bill.Stewart.4K435.x0705) (09/16/85)
> Has anyone put a second unibus adapter on a 780 or other Vaxen running > System V, Release 2.0 Unix? If so, how was it specified in the config > file and what changes are rquired to the source? > Bob Thurman, Cray Research, Inc. Yes! You can buy the software support from DEC for about $2500. They have versions for System V Rel 0 (a bit buggy; SVR2 came out about when they released the SVR0 driver, so most of the bug fixes went into the SVR2 version), SysV Rel 2 (pretty solid stuff), and SVR2v2 (the VAX paging version) (my tape is in the mail, so I haven't installed it yet.) They change about 2 dozen files, mostly related to UNIBUS and disk file handling, plus stuff like /etc/sysdef and /stand/*. The tape they send you has a bunch of source and assembler files and an installation script. It's only safe to run the script once; most of it looks like: cp /usr/src/uts/vax/io/foo.c /usr/src/uts/vax/io/foo.c.orig52 cp foo.c /usr/src/uts/vax/io/foo.c so the second run copies dec's stuff (now residing in .../foo.c) onto .../foo.c.orig52. I was doing a number of bizarre things in addition to installing the DEC source, so I had to run the installation script a number of times. Make sure you back up anything the DEC script uses into somewhere safe. The instructions were good cookbook stuff, and there was a lot of detail for various reasonable hardware configurations. I don't have the ordering info at hand. DEC's UNIX software support people are at their Holmdel NJ office, 1-201-946-9403; Dave Leonard is the person in charge, but check with your sales person first rather than calling him. -- ## Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs