bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) (10/29/90)
Last Thursday I finally got my upgrade from Wyle Labs, I've been
trying to buy it since late August. I thought that the hardest
part was over... I have a 32/400 with internal 380Mb SCSI disk,
150Mb SCSI tape, 4Mb memory, 8K cache, and a pair of HPSIO-8's.
It runs 2.00.01 flawlessly, but since everything else in the
place is Vr3, I figured I'd upgrade the Tower.
Things seemed to work OK, I got no complaints from the install other
than the (I'm told) harmless complaints about sda1 not being ready
and then a successful load from sda1. After I got the system up and
running I found that va would memory fault and drop a core when it
was building its list of ttys and that the hpsio's seemed to be dead.
By "dead" I mean that I could start a uugetty and everything would
come up like I expected but when I connected to it there was no login
prompt and if I killed it, there was no transition in DTR as the new
process respawned. A Tower savvy neighbor suggested that I avoid va
altogether and set the system up by hand. I did this and got exactly
the same results that I did when using va.
Are there some hardware pre-req's to bringing up 3.00.00 or 3.00.01?
All of the SUS pre-req's I could find were prior to those required
for internal SCSI disk/tape, a ROM query says $5151. Wyle tech support,
otherwise very helpful, suggested I have a hardware problem. I'm
skeptical of that diagnosis because it was given late Friday afternoon
and I was able to restore Vr2 from the backups. There are no problems
at all running Vr2 with either hpsio. I started to graft the hpsio
driver over but then remembered that the tty structures, among other
things, changed.
Right now I'm at a hard stop. Wyle is through with me, NCR won't
talk to me (no maintenance agreement), and I can't make it work.
Hopefully the net.wisdom can get me moving again. Thanks!
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