Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dicomed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!dicomed!boylan From: boylan@dicomed.UUCP (Chris Boylan) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: VAX-11/750 rev 6 upgrade Message-ID: <186@dicomed.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Jun-84 15:05:34 EDT Article-I.D.: dicomed.186 Posted: Sat Jun 2 15:05:34 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 07:50:12 EDT Organization: DICOMED Corp., Minneapolis Lines: 21 Keywords: tbuf par errors, microcode loading I talked to our local DEC people about our repeated crashes due to double tbuf parity errors, which are not handled by 4.2bsd. According to them, rev 6 of the 750 will completely fix this problem. Rev 6 can apparently be ordered (they are ordering it for our leased machine) and will involve 6 board swaps and new microcode. This isn't terribly exciting since most of what I heard from them I have heard elsewhere (including this network) before, but they also said that a method has been devised to allow UNIX to be able to load the microcode patches at boot time from the console cassette. It would appear that 750 w/unix would always boot from the cassette and that it will length the reboot time by 3 minutes (their figure). Has anyone heard more about this? Beta sites? DEC people? -- Chris Boylan {mgnetp | ihnp4 | uwvax}!dicomed!boylan