davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (05/30/90)
One of my minor gripes with the SLS updates is that the cover letters
don't clearly state what they are supposed to fix, add, or change. I
have been looking at xnx133, which is a fix for "problems" with the WD1007
controller. Unfortunately, it doesn't say exactly what it cures. Is this
just to be blindly unstalled on all systems with the WD1007? Will it
cure the problem of occasional hangs with the WD1006?
I think the SLS systems is a great idea, I check it monthly (or more
if I have a problem) and it's been of great use. It would probably save
SCO some time answering questions if the the cover letter was just a
little more explicit, particularly for fixes. The added features are
obvious. One paragraph in the letter might save twenty phone calls.
As soon as I get a system with a WD1006 hanging (I have seen
repeatable cases of this) I'm going to put in the WD1007 patch which
(probably) addresses the same problem. At any rate the helpful person on
the phone said that it addressed hanging due to overlapping seeks (more
or less). That seems to be a candidate for the 1006 problem as well.
Now that I have the fix in hand, all RLL systems have been running
without a hang for months. I guess I can't complain, can I. I may
convert to (xomebody's) UNIX before the chance comes to try the fix.
--
bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -meromkey@asylum.SF.CA.US (John Romkey) (05/31/90)
In article <2265@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill
davidsen) writes about cover letters for SCO support updates that are
available via anonymous UUCP.
That got me wondering. Does SCO maintain a list of these that is also
available via UUCP? What's its name?
--
- john romkey
USENET/UUCP: romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us Internet: romkey@ftp.com
I could go on, but what's the use? You can't fight them with songs. Joe
But think of this as a just another tiny blow against the empire. Jacksonkarl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) (05/31/90)
In article <2265@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes: > > One of my minor gripes with the SLS updates is that the cover letters >don't clearly state what they are supposed to fix, add, or change. > > As soon as I get a system with a WD1006 hanging (I have seen >repeatable cases of this) I'm going to put in the WD1007 patch which >(probably) addresses the same problem. At any rate the helpful person on >the phone said that it addressed hanging due to overlapping seeks (more >or less). That seems to be a candidate for the 1006 problem as well. This >is< the same problem, at least on ISC. There is a one-line fix (that I've previously posted) for ISC. I suspect that this patch will fix it for Xenix as well. -- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl) Public Access Data Line: [+1 708 808-7300], Voice: [+1 708 808-7200] Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. "Quality Solutions at a Fair Price"
jim@applix.com (Jim Morton) (06/02/90)
In article <2265@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes: } One of my minor gripes with the SLS updates is that the cover letters } don't clearly state what they are supposed to fix, add, or change. I } have been looking at xnx133, which is a fix for "problems" with the WD1007 } controller. Unfortunately, it doesn't say exactly what it cures. Is this } just to be blindly unstalled on all systems with the WD1007? Funny, just today I was re-reading that very cover sheet to try to get a clue whether that fix might help a problem I'm having with a Compuadd 386/20 with an IDE disk controller. It's a shame after all the work the SCO engineers put into an SLS update that they don't spend 30 seconds more and put a few descriptive sentences in the cover sheet... -- Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA ...uunet!applix!jim jim@applix.com