erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R Dicks) (07/23/89)
At SRC, we have a VAX-11/750 running double duty as a VMS machine by day and Ultrix by night. The Ultrix personality is running 2.2 because that is what our customer that we are helping has. (We do have 3.0, but not 3.1 yet). On the console, everything is normal. On any other port, the first character is sometimes lost on certain lines, almost always the second line in a batch of output... % ls -l Total: 204 [pause] -rwxrwxrwx... rwxrwxrwx... -rwxrwxrwx... or % sadfjha sadfjha:ommand not found. The hardware is: VAX-11/750 with 6 Mb, no FFP, 1 DMF-32, 2 Emulex CS-21 boards (no hitch when the machine is VMSing), TU80, RA81 (Ultrix system disk), RUX50 floppies, RL02 (problem occured before we installed this one), SI-9900 with a Fujitsu Eagle (VMS disk). Is this a known problem? I could not find any reference to this in the Ultrix system dispatch index. Is this an SPR-able event, or could I have something set wrong. I followed the manual explictly on how to set up the /etc/ttys file; the entry for the VT100 console is identical to the ones for the other ports. Any response would be most graciously received... Thanks in advance, -ethan -- Ethan R. Dicks | ###### This signifies that the poster is a member in Software Results Corp| ## good sitting of Inertia House: Bodies at rest. 940 Freeway Drive N. | ## Columbus OH 43229 | ###### "You get it, you're closer."
grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) (07/24/89)
In article <55810@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Ethan R Dicks <erd@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes: > > At SRC, we have a VAX-11/750 running double duty as a VMS machine by > day and Ultrix by night. The Ultrix personality is running 2.2 because > that is what our customer that we are helping has. (We do have 3.0, but > not 3.1 yet). On the console, everything is normal. On any other port, > the first character is sometimes lost on certain lines, almost always > the second line in a batch of output... .... > Is this a known problem? I could not find any reference to this in the > Ultrix system dispatch index. Is this an SPR-able event, or could I > have something set wrong. I followed the manual explictly on how to > set up the /etc/ttys file; the entry for the VT100 console is identical > to the ones for the other ports. If it really does this on the DMF32, then I don't know what would be wrong unless you're testing useing a screwed up cable/terminal. If it only happens on the Emulex lines, then there's a chance you need either to upgrade the Emulex boards or apply a patch to the serial driver to make it work. Some of the 3'rd party boards are known not to emulate some of the tricks that BSD derived Unix employs. Check with Emulex. If Chris Torek doesn't pop up with the real dope here, drop a note into unix.wizards in a day or two and see what pops up there... I wouldn't expect too much help from DEC, and it's probably not SPR'able unless it does it on the DEC interface under the current or current-1 release of Ultrix. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)
heins@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Leeland Heins) (07/27/89)
In article <55810@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Ethan R Dicks <erd@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes: >The hardware is: VAX-11/750 with 6 Mb, no FFP, 1 DMF-32, 2 Emulex CS-21 >boards (no hitch when the machine is VMSing) Which version of the CS21 do you have? We are using the CS21/F, which emulates two DEC DMF32's. Other versions of the card emulate DH11's or DZ11's, neither of which have I tested. We have been using one CS21/F in a VAX-11/730 and one in a VAX 8250. Make sure you have the newest revision firmware if you are running them with Ultrix (current revision is K as far as I know -- some of the more recent fixes in the firmware were specifically for *IX accoring to Emulex tech support). We used the CS21/F with Ultrix 2.0 for a while on our 8250 before we upgraded it to 4.3BSD-Tahoe. >Is this a known problem? I could not find any reference to this in the >Ultrix system dispatch index. Is this an SPR-able event, or could I >have something set wrong. I followed the manual explictly on how to >set up the /etc/ttys file; the entry for the VT100 console is identical >to the ones for the other ports. Make sure your gettytab entries are correct, this could be a handshaking problem... also you may want to add 'stty tandem' to people's .login files. >Ethan R. Dicks | ###### This signifies that the poster is a member in >Software Results Corp| ## good sitting of Inertia House: Bodies at rest. >940 Freeway Drive N. | ## >Columbus OH 43229 | ###### "You get it, you're closer." //|||\\ "Attack of the killer Lee Heins, EXNET Programmer //-O-O-\\ mutant techno-hippies Iowa State U. Extension || v || from Hell" heins@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu || === || ...!hplabs!hp-lsd!atanasoff!heins || --- || /// `|' \\\ Disclaimer: I speak for myself only.