1 INFO-VAX	Sun, 11 Nov 2001	Volume 2001 : Issue 627       Contents:$ Re: ANN: MGFTP V2.7 is now available Re: Compaq/HP merger in trouble $ Re: Compaq: VMS is alive and kicking Re: FORMATTING A FLOPPY  Hardware question  Re: Hardware question 2 Re: Hewlett family votes "NO" on HP-Compaq merger!F Re: HP co-founder's son hires firm to gather opposition to Compaq deal
 Infoserver Re: Purveyor and VMS 7.3 Re: Purveyor and VMS 7.39 Re: Request for help with ANALYZE/ERROR disk error report E Re: Rob's British Champion, was: Re: Compaq: VMS is alive and kicking  Re: samba on VAXO SKC/Tru64.org IPF Consolidation Survey Results Posted... New Survey, Too TooToo A Special IPF-Inside Issue of Shannon Knows Compaq at www.tru64.org C Re: VMS 7.1 Alpha installation on PWS 433a (with correct SCSI card) C Re: VMS 7.1 Alpha installation on PWS 433a (with correct SCSI card)   F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  # Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 19:13:26 GMT - From: goathunter@goatley.com (Hunter Goatley) - Subject: Re: ANN: MGFTP V2.7 is now available 1 Message-ID: <3bed7bcd.262791043@news.process.com>   P On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 22:04:48 GMT, goathunter@goatley.com (Hunter Goatley) wrote:  * >MGFTP V2.7 is now available for download. > 1 >You can get MGFTP V2.7 using the following URLs:  > E >http://www.process.com/openvms/         !Our OpenVMS Resource Center  > 6 >ftp://ftp.process.com/vms-freeware/fileserv/mgftp.zip2 >ftp://ftp.tmk.com/vms-freeware/fileserv/mgftp.zip7 >http://www.tmk.com/ftp/vms-freeware/fileserv/mgftp.zip ( >ftp://ftp.madgoat.com/madgoat/mgftp.zip > ) >And on the mirror sites within 24 hours.  > G Sigh.  I forgot one, little thing.  I forgot to update the FTP.CLD that F is optionally inserted in DCLTABLES.  I've repacked the kits with thatF minor fix, but have not bumped the version number or anything.  If youD use MGFTP but don't install the FTP command in DCLTABLES, no need toC re-download if you already picked up the kit.  If you did and don't P want to, you can grab MGFTP.CLD from ftp.process.com in [.VMS-FREEWARE.FILESERV]2 and add that to your DCLTABLES to fix the problem.   Sorry for not catching this!   Hunter ------9 Hunter Goatley, Process Software, http://www.process.com/ 9 goathunter@goatley.com     http://www.goatley.com/hunter/    ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 18:21:17 -0500 ( From: David Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com>( Subject: Re: Compaq/HP merger in trouble, Message-ID: <3BEC64ED.3080500@tsoft-inc.com>   Bill Gunshannon wrote:  : > In article <21bnutsrgj66vae78vie7t88p9ndsui3je@4ax.com>,* >  Alan Greig <a.greig@virgin.net> writes: > |>I > |> If Compaq were to truly re-focus on the Enterprise I can think of no ? > |> better initial choice. Have Ken Olsen on the podium at the E > |> announcement along with Bell and Supnick etc. Guaranteed to grab 4 > |> attention and really flag a change in strategy. > |> > A > Yes, but their all engineers.  How long would it be before they B > were pushed aside by the next wave of marketeers??  I do have toD > admit the presentation given by the three of them would be a sight	 > to see.     D If only we HAD gotten marketing people.  That's the big problem, no 3 marketing, and frankly one of Ken Olson's problems.      > billF > (Hmmmm....  could you envision the announcement of the 128-processor > 2.4Ghz PDP-11.  :-)  >      Well, maybe the PDP-128.  :-)      Dave     --  4 David Froble                       Tel: 724-529-04504 Dave Froble Enterprises, Inc.      Fax: 724-529-0596> DFE Ultralights, Inc.              E-Mail: davef@tsoft-inc.com6 T-Soft, Inc.  170 Grimplin Road  Vanderbilt, PA  15486   ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 17:51:16 -0500 ( From: David Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com>- Subject: Re: Compaq: VMS is alive and kicking , Message-ID: <3BEC5DE4.9080400@tsoft-inc.com>   Bill Todd wrote:  5 > Bill Todd <billtodd@metrocast.net> wrote in message > > news:apWG7.117881$tb2.9300885@bin2.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com... > 5 >>Bob Ceculski <bob@instantwhip.com> wrote in message 9 >>news:d7791aa1.0111090908.41e096af@posting.google.com...  >>8 >>>"Bill Todd" <billtodd@metrocast.net> wrote in message >>> ? >>news:<dwiG7.49095$7x1.4546371@bin4.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com>...  >>: >>>>Rob Young <young_r@encompasserve.org> wrote in message1 >>>>news:P2vdnt59e7mS@eisner.encompasserve.org...  >>>>: >>>>>In article <3BE99AA6.9BE22DD0@videotron.ca>, JF Mezei >>>>> * >>>><jfmezei.spamnot@videotron.ca> writes: >>>>D >>>>The problem is, transitioning to another platform also has major >>>>	 > upsides  > F >>>>that simply migrating to VMS on Itanic does not.  At least it does >>>> >>unless >>J >>>>the ISV is planning on using his/her product as a cash cow in the sameC >>>>manner that Compaq uses VMS, in which case the ability to bleed  >>>>	 > captive  > F >>>>customers on a product that may not have any wider audience anyway >>>> > could  >  >>>>make sense.  >>>>F >>>>For any other ISV (that doesn't already offer its product on other >>>> >>platforms  >>H >>>>and thus have even less reason to bother migrating the VMS version), >>>>	 >>porting  >>E >>>>to a vastly more popular platform may well make a great deal more  >>>> > sense  >  >>than >>H >>>>expending the effort to accommodate the portion of the shrinking VMS/ >>>>population that may wish to move to Itanic.  >>>>
 >>>>- bill >>>>I >>>if you call blue screens and spending 80% of my time patching security  >>>  >>bugs >>8 >>>a major upside, your above comment makes no sense ... >>> J >>Get a grip, Bob.  Windows isn't the only vastly more popular alternative >> > out  > * >>there, and some of them aren't half bad. >> > J > Dear me, I seem to have responded too quickly and missed the main point:K > ISVs are in business to make money, which they usually can do best on the @ > most popular platforms even if those platforms are utter crap.    F Yep, the products do not have to work well for the ISV to collect the F purchase price.  Being able to blame problems on the OS can also be a " benefit, to the ISV, not the user.    G > Your posts in general do not reflect much understanding of either the L > overall situation or the specific material you respond to.  If you were to; > think more before you type, they'd be more worth reading.  >  > - bill    I Just use the shift key occasionally, that may let your brain catch up to  
 your fingers.    --  4 David Froble                       Tel: 724-529-04504 Dave Froble Enterprises, Inc.      Fax: 724-529-0596> DFE Ultralights, Inc.              E-Mail: davef@tsoft-inc.com6 T-Soft, Inc.  170 Grimplin Road  Vanderbilt, PA  15486   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 22:11:15 +0100 * From: dwparsons@t-online.de (Dave Parsons)  Subject: Re: FORMATTING A FLOPPYP Message-ID: <Ej0w7lFo08Zw-pn2-EzvdEduHXPPh@jupiter.dwparsons.dialin.t-online.de>  L On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 14:00:04, goathunter@goatley.com (Hunter Goatley) wrote:  ? > The OpenVMS Freeware V5.0 CD has a port of MTOOLS, which does A > support long file names, but which mostly didn't work back when @ > I tried it.  I've been wanting to look into the MTOOLS port toA > find out why, but there aren't enough hours in the day, or days & > in the week, or something like that. >  > Hunter  B Yes, I know what you mean. Anyway, thanks for the tip, I'll see if I can find the time...   --   Dave   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 23:55:23 -0000 , From: Steve Wakelin <steve@wcsl.demon.co.uk> Subject: Hardware questionK Message-ID: <01FF6A98E5CED51192FD525405E293F366CB@wcsls01.wcsl.demon.co.uk>   K I have an AlphaServer 400 which I would like to add additonal disk capacity K to.  I also have an Adaptec 1542B ISA SCSI card.  The 400 supports ISA so I 
 was wondering   L 1. Whether I can configure the BIOS to accept this card?  If so how?  isacfg seems to be a !    little bit of a black art :-(.   F 2. Whether OpenVMS V7.2-1 will support this natively or would I need a device driver?   Many thanks in advance   /Steve   ------------------------------  # Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 04:08:11 GMT ( From: Terry Kennedy <terry@gate.tmk.com> Subject: Re: Hardware question< Message-ID: <LQmH7.11583$ym4.506419@iad-read.news.verio.net>  . Steve Wakelin <steve@wcsl.demon.co.uk> writes:M > I have an AlphaServer 400 which I would like to add additonal disk capacity M > to.  I also have an Adaptec 1542B ISA SCSI card.  The 400 supports ISA so I  > was wondering  > N > 1. Whether I can configure the BIOS to accept this card?  If so how?  isacfg > seems to be a # >    little bit of a black art :-(.  > H > 2. Whether OpenVMS V7.2-1 will support this natively or would I need a > device driver?  K   That card is ancient and may not work properly in the system (where "work H properly" is defined as "perform error-free DMA and not wedge the bus").  M   Further, I'm almost positive that there is no driver support for that card. , The types of cards I know of as working are:  J   1) Symbios (LSI Logic/NCR) 53C8xx-based cards. Note that not all genericK      cards will work; the assorted port drivers check for special BIOS sig- 
      natures.   J   2) Qlogic ISP10x0 cards. I'm told that generic cards work, but I have no      direct experience.   H   3) Mylex DAC960 family RAID cards. These probably require the obsoleteJ      2.x DEC/Compaq firmware variant and not the generic firmware as well.  E   There may be others. In particular, the DS20 has some sort of newer I Adaptec chip on the mainboard, and it's often been rumored that this will H be supported at some point, for some class of devices. Whether that willF also include support for generic Adaptec cards with the same chip is a different question, though.   4         Terry Kennedy             http://www.tmk.com2         terry@tmk.com             New York, NY USA   ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 18:14:01 -0500 ( From: David Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com>; Subject: Re: Hewlett family votes "NO" on HP-Compaq merger! , Message-ID: <3BEC6339.7040200@tsoft-inc.com>   John Eisenschmidt wrote:   > What's so unintuitive? >  > cd - change directory  > cp - copy  > ln - link  > ls - list  > man - manual > ps - process list 
 > rm - remove  >  > While the command names in VMS are pretty intuitive (except for SET DEFAULT), the ones in Unix aren't that far off. There are also purposly terse since they're so often typed.  > W > But it's nice to know there are still open minded people who are accepting of change.   F There is no consistancy.  'cd' is the first letter in each word. 'cp' H has no logic at all, just random letters from the word.  Same with 'ln' C and 'ls'.  Wait, I get it, use the first and third letter from the  G command.  Whoops, 'man' upset that rule.  Care to tell me which 's' in  G process list is used in the 'ps'?  Ah, 'rm' is back to first and third   characters.   C If you were to have the following, and allow abrivations of enough  @ characters to be unique, then you would have intuitive commands.   change_directory copy link
 list_files manual process_list remove  # Opps, then it wouldn't be so geeky.    Dave   --  4 David Froble                       Tel: 724-529-04504 Dave Froble Enterprises, Inc.      Fax: 724-529-0596> DFE Ultralights, Inc.              E-Mail: davef@tsoft-inc.com6 T-Soft, Inc.  170 Grimplin Road  Vanderbilt, PA  15486   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 15:26:08 -0500 - From: JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@videotron.ca> O Subject: Re: HP co-founder's son hires firm to gather opposition to Compaq deal + Message-ID: <3BED8D5A.7FE3CB7@videotron.ca>    Jerry Leslie wrote:   J >    New York-based MacKenzie earlier this year helped Computer AssociatesJ >    International fend off a bid by Dallas billionaire Sam Wyly to gain aG >    voice on the software maker's board and push for internal reforms.   K I just wish Sam Wily woudl do to Compaq what he did to CA. Wang did have to N agree to major concessions and improving CA's customer services etc etc to get Wily off his back.  D >    Alto-based Hewlett-Packard. Family members have complained that? >    acquiring Compaq would boost the company's position in the B >    personal-computer market, a business where profit margins areJ >    shrinking and annual sales are forecast to fall for the first time in >    more than 15 years.    F This could actually be a good thing for VMS. Carly might compromise byN agreeing to focus on the true enterprise products (Tandem and VMS) in exchangeK for the permission to buy Compaq. This would be a big blow to Microsoft who * would lose a serious maker of wintel junk.  K But if this is to be a long drawn out battle, Compaq might die before it is  over, making the purchase moot.    ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 01:08:33 -0500 ' From: Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net>  Subject: Infoserver < Message-ID: <howard-D688AD.01083311112001@enews.newsguy.com>  , My ass was saved by an Infoserver 150 today.  L Yes, I could have offered a service from another system, but the Infoserver M was more convienient.  Is there a newer way to do the same thing?  Or is the  0 newer way to have a normal node offer a service? --   Howard S ShubsD "Run in circles, scream and shout!"  "I hope you have good backups!"   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 22:43:31 +0100 ) From: "Jakob Erber" <erber@tiscalinet.ch> ! Subject: Re: Purveyor and VMS 7.3 + Message-ID: <3beda07b$1_1@news.datacomm.ch>    May I ask a question:  what product is purveyor?    regards    Jakob       7 Ed Wilts <ewilts@ewilts.org> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: / C8dH7.2677$T6.114932@typhoon.mn.mediaone.net... J > Since Idon't have an extra Purveyor license to use to test it on my testK > 7.3 systems, I'll have to take the word of others who've gone that route. - >  So...does Purveyor have any issues on 7.3?  > 	 > Thanks,  > .../Ed > --  > Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:ewilts@ewilts.org   ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 04:01:06 +0100 2 From: martin@radiogaga.harz.de (Martin Vorlaender)! Subject: Re: Purveyor and VMS 7.3 ; Message-ID: <3bede9f2.524144494f47414741@radiogaga.harz.de>   ( Jakob Erber (erber@tiscalinet.ch) wrote:' > Ed Wilts <ewilts@ewilts.org> wrote... / > >  So...does Purveyor have any issues on 7.3?  >  > May I ask a question:  > what product is purveyor?   H It's a commercial webserver by Process Software. Rock-solid software butE a bit behind feature-wise. It's been EOLed, but if you really want it  they'll sell it to you.    cu,    Martin --  G                            | Martin Vorlaender  |  VMS & WNT programmer 4  UNIX is user friendly.    | work: mv@pdv-systeme.deG  It's just selective about |   http://www.pdv-systeme.de/users/martinv/ ;  who its friends are.      | home: martin@radiogaga.harz.de    ------------------------------  # Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 19:05:01 GMT ; From: "Stuart R. Fuller" <stu@c49395-a.wodhvn1.mi.home.com> B Subject: Re: Request for help with ANALYZE/ERROR disk error report0 Message-ID: <qpqjs9.s4c.ln@dadsys1.fuller.local>  / Alan E. Feldman <SPAMSINK2001@yahoo.com> wrote:  : Hello,  B : Can anyone please help me interpret this disk error report? What@ : happened and how serious is it? What do "TRACK FOLLOWING ERROR : OCCURRED"   N Generally, it means that while the heads were following the servo track as theG platter spins, they wandered off the track.  Maybe the drive received a / physical shock or bump.  Are you in California?    : and "WRITE EXTENDED" mean?    . That was the SCSI command issued to the drive.   Does the presence ofG : "%SYSTEM-S-NORMAL, NORMAL SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION" always imply a "soft C : error" not generally worth worrying about except perhaps in large 
 : numbers?  < Well, it didn't return SS$_PARITY, so that's a good thing.    M Usually, one error log entry is not enough to determine if you have a failing 9 drive.  Sometimes, it's simply a case of "stuff happens".            Stu    ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 17:55:42 -0500 ( From: David Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com>N Subject: Re: Rob's British Champion, was: Re: Compaq: VMS is alive and kicking, Message-ID: <3BEC5EEE.5030909@tsoft-inc.com>   Fred Kleinsorge wrote:  N > Hmmm.  Now that you mention it.  Andrew hasn't been heard from here in quite
 > a while. > * > Not to look a gift horse in the mouth...  I Actually, I miss him.  At least with Andrew I didn't have to feel bad if  E I typed before thinking and flamed him.  If I thought that he didn't sG deserve it for that instance, I was sure that there was something that a7 deserved it, so no qualms.  When you felt like kicking e- someone/something, Andrew was available.  :-)R  G Unfortunately for us VMS bigots, sometimes he had some rather accurate o* things to say that we didn't want to hear.  G Guess the downturn in the economy must have caused Sun to do away with r their FUDsters.  :-)   Dave   -- i4 David Froble                       Tel: 724-529-04504 Dave Froble Enterprises, Inc.      Fax: 724-529-0596> DFE Ultralights, Inc.              E-Mail: davef@tsoft-inc.com6 T-Soft, Inc.  170 Grimplin Road  Vanderbilt, PA  15486   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 22:25:14 -0500i  From: John Santos <JOHN@egh.com> Subject: Re: samba on VAXs5 Message-ID: <1011110220808.1416B-100000@Ives.egh.com>g  D RTB errors are usually a sign something got trashed in the download.  C Most likely, text files got copied as binary from or through a Unixh
 or M$ system.s  G Or a zip file was zipped or unzipped without the correct (i.e. preservesB VMS attributes) switch.  Or maybe you need a newer unzip.  Mine isH "UnZip 5.42 of 14 January 2001", which I got from ftp.process.com, IIRC.  ? I don't know how Samba for VMS is distributed (installing it onrB my home VAX is on my "Do this Real Soon Now" list), but I'd double@ check the install procedure to make sure I did everything right.   Hope this helps.  ) On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Carl M Fulton wrote:o  G > I am trying to install Samba on a VAX 4500 VMS 6.2 with Multinet 4.2.l > I keep getting the following9 > %RMS-W-RTB, 512 byte record too large for user's bufferI8 > whenever I try to edit a large file or run a com file.A > I am a novice and don't know what I need to change to fix this.D > Help anyone?8 > Also a decent install page on the web would help lots!  ( The VMS FAQ, under question SOFT1, says:  % -------------------------------------c= Information on the SAMBA package (PC disk and print services)- is available at:8   http://ifn03.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/ifn/sonst/samba-vms.html   http://www.samba.org/:  D To subscribe to the SAMBA-VMS mailing list e-mail listproc@samba.org; with no subject line and the following single line of text:6  #  subscribe samba-vms Your Full Namea  	 Also see:e   http://lists.samba.org/>  # -----------------------------------   ? P.S. If you find more info somewhere else, please post its URL,a- since I'll probably be looking soon!  Thanks.c   > Could anyone point me there? > TIAa > Carl   --   John Santosi Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc. 781-861-0670 ext 539   ------------------------------  # Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 23:26:04 GMTe- From: Terry C Shannon <shannon@world.std.com> X Subject: SKC/Tru64.org IPF Consolidation Survey Results Posted... New Survey, Too TooTooD Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.30.0111101819530.12572-100000@world.std.com>  H This just in from www.tru64.org: a summary analysis of the SKC/Tru64.orgI IPF Consolidation Survey has been posted on http://www.tru64.org. The PDF.! file is free for the downloading.a  G While you're there, why not take the 13-question followup survey? It'll I take no more than a minute or two. The only demographic info collected is A your email address and company name; this info will *not* be madeo; available to third parties, spammers, telemarketers, et al.-  H Hope you enjoy perusing the initial survey results, and Ken Farmer and I< would appreciate your participation in the follow-up survey.   cheers,k  
 terry shannon   F PS-- Ken has started adding content to www.tru64.org's companion site, www.openvms.org. Check it out!   ------------------------------  # Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 04:48:03 GMT - From: Terry C Shannon <shannon@world.std.com>eJ Subject: Special IPF-Inside Issue of Shannon Knows Compaq at www.tru64.orgD Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.30.0111102342060.15684-100000@world.std.com>  I I just put together a special issue of Shannon Knows Compaq that containsu= three articles on Compaq's IPF Consolidation. Included in the@D free-for-the-downloading PDF are a discussion of why Compaq opted toH scuttle Alpha, an explanation of why things were done as they were (e.g.I why publish an Alpha obituary three or four years before the architecturej= shuffles off its mortal coils), and what's behind the currentt$ unavailability of IPF-based systems.  G While you're at www.tru64.org, be sure to take a look at the results ofcB the SKC/Tru64.org IPF Consolidation survey, and participate in the' brand-new survey Ken and I just posted.>   Enjoy,  
 terry shannona   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 16:54:41 -0500e0 From: "Island Computers" <dbturner@islandco.com>L Subject: Re: VMS 7.1 Alpha installation on PWS 433a (with correct SCSI card)/ Message-ID: <tur80tl221pvf7@news.supernews.com>,  I Well, I figured as he said he had a SCSI card in his system... Whay would K you need a SCSI card if you had and on board SCSI controller (the Latest or H last PWS Miata GL with bootable (cypress chipset) IDE CDROM and On board Qlogic QLA104C  # Ergo -he needs to use a SCSI Cd-ROM    David        -- David Turner   We sell Alpha systems & parts> http://www.islandco.comr sales@islandco.com Island Computers US Corp.  2700 Gregory Streeto Savannah GA 31404h Tel: 912 447 6622p Fax: 912 201 0096 0 Dan O'Reilly <dano@process.com> wrote in message< news:5.1.0.14.2.20011110110340.0385ebf0@raptor.psccos.com...H > How do you tell the difference in the series, so you know what to look for? >u* > At 10:54 AM 11/10/2001, Dirk Munk wrote:K > >There were two series of the PWS. The IDE controller of the first seriesh isI > >not supported in VMS, so you can not use the IDE CD-Rom in such a PWS.a YouoK > >need a SCSI CD-Rom, and indeed the Toshiba is the one Digital/Compaq user fors > >this purpose. > >e > >Brian Walton wrote: > >e
 > > > Hi - > > >iH > > > Does anyone know why on a Personal WorkStation 433a when trying to installrL > > > VMS 7.1 (DQA0) I boot the CD and it loads the bootstrap but then failsK > > > and states can't find "SYS$CPU_ROUTINES_1E05.EXE" and has a Halt Code  5.J > > > The system is running Linux right now on one disk and I want to have anL > > > install of OpenVMS 7.1 or 7.2 on another but can't get VMS to boot forH > > > the install. I have installed on a MicroVAX 3100 and other 433au's (came-I > > > with the SCSI card). The only thing I can tell that is different isa thatL > > > I do not have any cache on this system, is that a requirement for VMS? IFK > > > have looked through the docs on the web but can't find any referencesv to > > > my problem.t > > >l4 > > > Thanks in advance for any help in this matter. > > >  > > > Brian Walton >, > ------K > +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+rK > | Dan O'Reilly                  |                                       |uK > | Principal Engineer            |  "Why should I care about posterity?  | K > | Process Software              |   What's posterity ever done for me?" | K > | http://www.process.com        |                    -- Groucho Marx    |-K > +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+e >w   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 16:49:03 -05009& From: "Brian" <bkwalton@bellsouth.net>L Subject: Re: VMS 7.1 Alpha installation on PWS 433a (with correct SCSI card)@ Message-ID: <tdhH7.34959$LD.1515229@e3500-atl2.usenetserver.com>  L It should say on the front door 433a or 433au (or 500 or 600) if it does notH say au then it is an a (I have one that just says 433 and it is a 433a).   Brian:  2 "Dan O'Reilly" <dano@process.com> wrote in message< news:5.1.0.14.2.20011110110340.0385ebf0@raptor.psccos.com...H > How do you tell the difference in the series, so you know what to look for? > * > At 10:54 AM 11/10/2001, Dirk Munk wrote:K > >There were two series of the PWS. The IDE controller of the first seriese isI > >not supported in VMS, so you can not use the IDE CD-Rom in such a PWS.a YouhK > >need a SCSI CD-Rom, and indeed the Toshiba is the one Digital/Compaq use  fora > >this purpose. > >I > >Brian Walton wrote: > >s
 > > > Hi - > > >nH > > > Does anyone know why on a Personal WorkStation 433a when trying to installcL > > > VMS 7.1 (DQA0) I boot the CD and it loads the bootstrap but then failsK > > > and states can't find "SYS$CPU_ROUTINES_1E05.EXE" and has a Halt Code  5.J > > > The system is running Linux right now on one disk and I want to have anL > > > install of OpenVMS 7.1 or 7.2 on another but can't get VMS to boot forH > > > the install. I have installed on a MicroVAX 3100 and other 433au's (cameeI > > > with the SCSI card). The only thing I can tell that is different is- thatL > > > I do not have any cache on this system, is that a requirement for VMS? I K > > > have looked through the docs on the web but can't find any referencesm to > > > my problem.s > > >b4 > > > Thanks in advance for any help in this matter. > > >a > > > Brian Walton >p > ------K > +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+fK > | Dan O'Reilly                  |                                       |oK > | Principal Engineer            |  "Why should I care about posterity?  | K > | Process Software              |   What's posterity ever done for me?" |aK > | http://www.process.com        |                    -- Groucho Marx    |aK > +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+w >k   ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2001.627 ************************