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From: whm@arizona.edu (Bill Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.sys.dec
Subject: DEC maintenance on 86XX requires VMS?
Message-ID: <1805@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 16:23:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  9 16:23:02 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 07:24:29 EDT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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We've got an 8600 maintained by DEC that we run 4.3BSD UNIX on.  The system
has a UDA50+RA60 (removable pack) on it; DEC required that we purchase this
so that they could boot VMS on it if need be.  We're about to buy some new
disk hardware and we came up with a scheme that could save us about $15k if
we could take the UDA+RA60 off the 8600 and put it on another machine, but
our local DEC office says that they are not permitted to maintain the 8600
unless they can bring up VMS on it and without the UDA+RA, they can't do that.

So, I'm looking for exceptions, i.e., DEC-maintained 8600s or 8650s on which
VMS can't be booted.  If have one or a pointer to same, please drop me a line
or give me a call.  

					Bill Mitchell
					whm@arizona.edu
					{allegra,ihnp4,noao}!arizona!whm
					602-621-6613

p.s.
An obvious out is to get non-DEC maintenance for the 8600, but for reasons
not worth explaining, that won't be a possibility for us until next year.