1 INFO-VAX	Sat, 20 May 2006	Volume 2006 : Issue 278       Contents:F How to restore one BACKUP/IMAGE from tape with mutliple BACKUP/IMAGEs?. Re: MacOS-X & drive/file sharing with OpenVMS?' Multiple job-openings in Sacramento, CA  Re: Results of my straw poll.  Re: SWS-2.1 (Apache) question?) Re: Various comments (decus presentation) / Re: what should Bad-Clients: in SMTP.CONFIG do?  XP1000 POST codes  Re: XP1000 POST codes  Re: XP1000 POST codes  Re: XP1000 POST codes  Re: XP1000 POST codes  Re: XP1000 POST codes  Re: XP1000 POST codes  Re: XP1000 POST codes  Re: XP1000 POST codes  Re: XP1000 POST codes B Re: XP1000 SRM Firmware (was: Re: Digital PWS 500au Firmware V6.9)B Re: XP1000 SRM Firmware (was: Re: Digital PWS 500au Firmware V6.9)B Re: XP1000 SRM Firmware (was: Re: Digital PWS 500au Firmware V6.9)  F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 21:31:23 -0700  From: Z <Z@ids.net> O Subject: How to restore one BACKUP/IMAGE from tape with mutliple BACKUP/IMAGEs? ( Message-ID: <vYwbg.186$gc6.110@fe06.lga>  G I have a backup tape. It contains 10 $BACKUP/IMAGEs, written one after  1 the other, one for each disk on the Alpha server.   I I need to restore just one disk from the tape, the 6th disk backed up on  	 the tape.    What are the proper commands?   K Do I need to skip over savesets/images? Or just pick the right one by name?   , This is VMS 6.2, if that makes a difference.   ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 12:42:10 -0600 + From: Mark Berryman <mark@theberrymans.com> 7 Subject: Re: MacOS-X & drive/file sharing with OpenVMS? % Message-ID: <446daf10$1@mvb.saic.com>     VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:U > In article <446b00c0$1@mvb.saic.com>, Mark Berryman <mark@theberrymans.com> writes:  >  >> >>healyzh@aracnet.com wrote: >>/ >>>Mark Berryman <mark@theberrymans.com> wrote:  >>>  >>> 3 >>>>I do this as well and it takes nothing special.  >>>  >>> O >>>>I am running the latest ECO of Advanced Server V7.3A and MAC OS X V10.3.9.  N >>>>To access any share I have defined in AS from the MAC, I simply do what isI >>>>shown above (well, almost).  It is: Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server % >>>>Enter: smb://servername/sharename  >>>  >>> N >>>>At password popup, enter your username and password as defined in AdvancedM >>>>Server.  File access works just fine from here.  I did nothing special to  >>>>make this work.  >>>  >>> J >>>Does everything work as expected from the Finder?  Are you able to copyL >>>files to the share, and can you edit & save a file that is located on the	 >>>share?  >>O >>Yes.  I edit and save Word documents directly to/from the share, for example.  >> >>Mark Berryman  >  > 9 > For shame Mark, you've put Micro$uck warez on your Mac?   N For some strange reason, when run on the MAC they do not get infected the way P they do when run on the PC.  I've even been able to use it to clean up infected 
 documents.  
 Mark Berryman    ------------------------------    Date: 19 May 2006 14:01:01 -0700& From: "Mani" <manisha.kumud@gmail.com>0 Subject: Multiple job-openings in Sacramento, CAC Message-ID: <1148072461.834422.253450@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>    Hi,   ? One of our client has two positions (12+ months of contract) in  sacramento, CA.   G 1. Looking for Project Managers who have done migration from OpenVMS to  Solaris.  E 2. Looking for Lead Developers who know Pro C and have done migration  from OpenVMS to Solaris.  F Interested candidates, please send your resume to manisha@maxplore.com! ASAP and we will discuss it more.    Thanks   ------------------------------   Date: 19 May 2006 19:30:29 GMT From: healyzh@aracnet.com & Subject: Re: Results of my straw poll., Message-ID: <e4l6cl01hfo@enews4.newsguy.com>  ) Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu> wrote: J > Do you really thin the 70-100 watts the PC draws would even be a blip onH > the radar in a computer room with VAX 7000 and PDP-11.44's in it?  Not2 > to mention the rest of the stuff here on campus.  G OK, you've got a point there :^)  I tend to be very aware of electrical B usage and heat generation.  Even here at work, with a *VERY* largeC datacenter we have to pay attention to that (1U racks can make life E interesting in a datacenter originally designed for larger hardware).   N > >                         The real advantage to serving it up on VMS is you ) > > can serve up Bookreader format doc's.   J > The last Docset I got had two sets. One was bookreader and the other wasK > HTML.  My students can read the HTML with any web browser. The bookreader H > format would only be accessible from a (very) small subset of machinesJ > here on campus.  Plus, remember my saying I was going to put 7 CD drives? > on the box?  It's not just VMS documentation I need to serve.   K I think you'll find that not everything is available in HTML or PDF.  OTOH, L as I think this mainly effects some layered products, there is a good chanceI this isn't an issue for you.  I use one or two of them, so it is for me.  L I'm using WASD and one of the packages available for it, to serve them up on? the web (the website is secured so only I have access to them).   I > Network traffic, network outages, network latency.  And that's just the G > disadvantages that come immediately to mind.  Because I have to serve H > other docs as well, it doesn't make much sense to make them go all theA > way to hp.com for some of them when I have them all right here.   J OK, that is a key piece of info I'd not seen, the fact that you're servingK up more doc's means this makes a lot more sense.  Oh, and network speed was I the key issue for me in putting this stuff on my server.  100Mbit means a L lot faster access than my DSL link :^)  Network outages were also a concern.  G > Not SCSI.  We haven't used SCSI here for a long time.  Too expensive. I > And contrary to popular belief, IDE is just as reliable.  In most cases G > the only difference between SCSI and IDE is the controller mounted on : > the drive.  The actual drive works are exactly the same.  L I take it you're using "white box" PC's?  Most of the IBM, Compaq, and HP PCJ servers I've seen, except some of the really low-end ones are all SCSI for internal disks.   G > >                                           The hardware is viewed as K > > garbage, but can be a good source of parts for Alpha's running OpenVMS.   J > Except that only certain PC grade parts will work with VMS and they tendF > to be at the high-end pricewise which is not the end where we do our > fishing.  :-)   J Swapping parts you can get for parts you can't get are an option if you'reH allowed to do this.  That's how I managed to get a couple of the parts I) have, and how I got a lot of my Sun gear.    		Zane   ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 17:18:56 -0400 ) From: "Neil Rieck" <n.rieck@sympatico.ca> ' Subject: Re: SWS-2.1 (Apache) question? 9 Message-ID: <YBqbg.9386$aa4.381405@news20.bellglobal.com>   = "Paul Sture" <paul.sture.nospam@hispeed.ch> wrote in message  5 news:474b5$446dd510$50db5015$18684@news.hispeed.ch...  > Neil Rieck wrote:    [...snip...]   > K >> Previously, Apache is started at boot by the STARTUP task which runs at  J >> priority 10 on my system (don't ask, I think this has been there since H >> the VAX days but no one can remember why). This makes me wonder what 3 >> other things are running at too high a priority.  >> > H > Running at priority 10 rings a bell from circa 10 years ago, on a VAX.L > This however was due to a tight loop in one of the UCX processes (V4.0 or  > 4.1?) during UCX$SHUTDOWN. > J > The UCX processes ran at base priority 8, and therefore the looping one 9 > ground the OPA0 process running SHOTDOWN.COM to a halt.  > K > Just a thought - maybe your site was experiencing something similar, but  ) > at startup. Did you have UCX back then?   H IIRC, the start-up process would slow down as we started more tasks and G tried to compete with them (this is why HP recommends starting up some  J things via a batch job). Since, all the things we started up at that time M specified their own base priorities, raising the priority of STARTUP did not   cause a problem (until now)   
 Neil Rieck Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,  Ontario, Canada.8 http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/links/cool_openvms.html: http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/links/openvms_demos.html    ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 20:10:58 -0400 . From: JF Mezei <jfmeze.spamnoti@vaxination.ca>2 Subject: Re: Various comments (decus presentation)- Message-ID: <446E5E91.C7C0AF72@vaxination.ca>    Neil Rieck wrote: I > Has anyone seen a hyperlink to the presenter's slides? I wasn't able to J > attend this offering but would still like to see the reference material.   I do.   % But since you didn't say "please"....                                                                                             E http://www.encompasscanada.com/seminar-speakernotes-mtl06-vmsunix.htm    ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 16:28:14 -0400 & From: JF Mezei <jfmezei@vaxination.ca>8 Subject: Re: what should Bad-Clients: in SMTP.CONFIG do?- Message-ID: <446E2A57.39652BB3@vaxination.ca>   / Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote: L > > The stuff not directed to your domain shouldn't even get to your system. > H > Why not?  Anyone can (do the equivalent of) telnet to port 25 and send > some commands.  > Say your are an ISP with 10,000 customers and I am a spammer.   F If I connect to your system, it is because I want to deliver a spam to8 one of your users. OR, use your SMTP server as a relay.   G If I want to deliver to one of your users, then I only connect you your N system when the email address has a host whose MX entry points to your system.    U > > Client IP address 211.213.103.30 unbacktranslatable (gethostbyaddr returned NULL)    Do you have $ 		Reject-Unbacktranslatable-IP: TRUEE in your SMTP.CONFIG ? If not, you should. That will stop reception of  the message at that point.  6 > This is the address I have in the Bad-Clients: list.  K I am not sure which is tested first, unbacktranslatable or the bad-clients.   S > > check_user: User bgehwzfevqyz is apparently a username but has no account: FAIL  > I > Yes, I want that to happen.  However, for this IP address, it shouldn't  > even get this far.  2 It means that your bad clients list isn't working.      E (This is just speculation here, I haven't seen the receiver code so I  don't know).  + > Printing debug_level 2, relevant headers: % > Return-Path: SMTP%"dtree7@nate.com" : > Received: from unknown.hostname (211.213.103.30) by xxxx > 1 > Printing debug_level 2, Domains and recipients:  > Domain: nate.com. >    Recipient address: SMTP%"dtree7@nate.com"  >    Domain part:       nate.com >    Local part:        dtree7/ >    Address Status:    Done, delivered. (Sent)   E What this tells me is that your SMTP server allows relaying from some D unknown hostname to an address that is not within your jurisdiction.
 VERY BAD !   Here is my smtp.config: $ $ type tcpip$smtp_common:smtp.config Good-Clients: 10.0.0.0/8 Bad-Clients: 59.84.0.0/16,         220.144.0.0/16,          200.45.190.0/23  !  Relay-Zones: vaxination.ca Relay-Zones: www.vaxination.ca Relay-Zones: gw.vaxination.ca  ! " Reject-Unbacktranslatable-IP: TRUE& Accept-Mail-From: user1@ozemail.com.au SPAM-Action: OPCOM,ACCOUNTING  Security: FRIENDLY RBLs: combined.njabl.org RBLs: sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org ! @ Unbacktranslatable-IP-Text: Can't backtranslate SMTP server's IP5 Client-In-RBL-Text: SMTP server is blacklisted in RBL = Bad-Clients-Text: Your network is blocked: sent too much SPAM 9 Unqualified-Sender-Text: Sender's email address illformed < Unresolvable-Domain-Text: Sender's email domain unresolvableI SPAM-Relay-Text: This facility does not tolerate spammers, relay disabled      OK, I just did a test. I added:   0 Bad-Clients: 10.0.0.12     (my MAC's IP address)  : I then tried to telnet/port=25 from my MAC. All I got was:E "550 Your network is blocked: sent too much SPAM"  and the connection  was disconnected.   D So it appears that the receiver will allow the connection, issue theD message and disconnect afterwards. This does generate a receiver logH file since the receiver is in fact started and reads the smtp config andF applies the rules. So yes, a search in your log files will reveal that many entries for blocked IPs.     A Note that without logging logicals defined, the receiver log file B doesn't contain any indication that the receiver got a call from a blocked IP.   2 The acocunting log file contains an entry such as:D 41425F50  544D532D  572D5049  50435425   %TCPIP-W-SMTP_BA   00000000D 50492074  6E65696C  63202C54  4E4C4344   DCLNT, client IP   00000010D 2E302E30  2E303120  73736572  64646120    address 10.0.0.   00000020D 43206461  42206465  68637461  6D203231   12 matched Bad C   00000030D 656C6261  74747369  6C207374  6E65696C   lients listtable   00000040         Also, you may wish to look at:2 http://spamlinks.net/prevent-secure-relay-test.htm  G This page contains lots of links on relay testing. You can look at some D of the web based relay checkers and have them test your SMTP server.6 They will tell you all your configuration weakenesses.   ------------------------------    Date: 19 May 2006 13:22:08 -0700; From: "johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com" <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com>  Subject: XP1000 POST codesA Message-ID: <1148070128.449838.49720@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>   E Does anyone have a listing of XP1000 POST beep codes?  The diagnostic  LED codes might be helpful too.   G I shut down my XP1000 yesterday in preparation to adding some memory to G it and when I went to start it today it just beeped at me.  I get a 1-2 G pattern (1 long, 2 short).  I've yanked and replaced all the memory and C pci cards  and even pulled the CPU board and re-seated it.  I don't G know what the 1-2 pattern means.  I've googled and found people talking E about the 1-3 pattern being memory so it must be something different.    Thanks for your help.    John H. Reinhardt    ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 14:12:02 -0700 # From: "Tom Linden" <tom@kednos.com>  Subject: Re: XP1000 POST codes) Message-ID: <op.s9tg6cqrzgicya@hyrrokkin>   > On Fri, 19 May 2006 13:22:08 -0700, johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com  ! <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com> wrote:   G > Does anyone have a listing of XP1000 POST beep codes?  The diagnostic ! > LED codes might be helpful too.  > I > I shut down my XP1000 yesterday in preparation to adding some memory to I > it and when I went to start it today it just beeped at me.  I get a 1-2 I > pattern (1 long, 2 short).  I've yanked and replaced all the memory and E > pci cards  and even pulled the CPU board and re-seated it.  I don't I > know what the 1-2 pattern means.  I've googled and found people talking G > about the 1-3 pattern being memory so it must be something different.  >  > Thanks for your help.  >  > John H. Reinhardt  > H I have found that XP1000 is a bit touchy regarding seating of daughter   board.' Installing memory is also not intuitive   J There are eight memory slots, consisting of Arrays (Banks) "0" and :"1".  L Memory must be populated in Array “0” first. Refer to the CPU Daughter  H Card to locate banks A and B and their orientation on the CPU Daughter   Card.    		Array 1		Array 0 					4 		8  					3 		7  					2 		6  					1 		5   F DIMMs must be in identical sets of four (one array/bank). If you are  J replacing a faulty DIMM, you can replace the bad DIMM with one identical  + to the other three DIMMS in the array/bank. G Each DIMM in a bank must be identical, but a bank does not have to be    identical to the other bank.  4 SROM will order the addresses, largest arrays first.  1 The system has a memory capacity of up to 2.0 GB.    ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 14:14:42 -0700 # From: "Tom Linden" <tom@kednos.com>  Subject: Re: XP1000 POST codes) Message-ID: <op.s9thassizgicya@hyrrokkin>   > On Fri, 19 May 2006 14:08:50 -0700, johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com  ! <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com> wrote:    >  > Hoff Hoffman wrote: " >> johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com wrote:J >> > Does anyone have a listing of XP1000 POST beep codes?  The diagnostic$ >> > LED codes might be helpful too. >> >K >> > I shut down my XP1000 yesterday in preparation to adding some memory    >> to J >> > it and when I went to start it today it just beeped at me.  I get a   >> 1-2 >> > pattern (1 long, 2 short).  >>H >> What are the POST LEDs you are seeing, starting from the power-switch >> end of the LED array? > @ > Starting on the top at D21: On On On Off   On On Off Off : D14 >  This is not good  B 1110 	1100	Bcache data march test error 	1,2 	CPU card malfunction   ------------------------------    Date: 19 May 2006 14:24:54 -0700; From: "johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com" <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com>  Subject: Re: XP1000 POST codesC Message-ID: <1148073894.774308.300880@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>    Tom Linden wrote:   H > I have found that XP1000 is a bit touchy regarding seating of daughter > board.  E Oh yeah!!!  That's an understatement.  I found out the hard way when, G after re-seating the board, I was rewarded with absolute silence when I C pressed the power switch.  I made sure I had plugged the power cord F back in and hit the switch a few more times and went "Well, sh*t!".  IG eventually realized it wasn't quite seated all the way in and gave it a G good push and it went in about another millimeter.  After that I got my  usual 1-2 POST beep.  ) > Installing memory is also not intuitive  > J > There are eight memory slots, consisting of Arrays (Banks) "0" and :"1".H > Memory must be populated in Array "0" first. Refer to the CPU DaughterH > Card to locate banks A and B and their orientation on the CPU Daughter > Card.  >  > 		Array 1		Array 0 > 					4 > 		8  > 					3 > 		7  > 					2 > 		6  > 					1 > 		5  > F > DIMMs must be in identical sets of four (one array/bank). If you areJ > replacing a faulty DIMM, you can replace the bad DIMM with one identical- > to the other three DIMMS in the array/bank. G > Each DIMM in a bank must be identical, but a bank does not have to be  > identical to the other bank. > 6 > SROM will order the addresses, largest arrays first. > 3 > The system has a memory capacity of up to 2.0 GB.   D Yeah. I know about the memory setup.  I was replacing a set of 128MB@ and a set of 64MB with two sets of 256MB (2GB total).  I've doneF several combinations of all the sets and the result is still the same.C Note that I started getting the post beeps before ever touching the ? memory.  I shut the system down yesterday evening and then this F afternoon I went to power it up and got the beeps.  Actually, now thatD I think about it, I think it hung on (VMS) shutdown and I powered it@ off because I don't remember getting back to the console prompt.   ------------------------------    Date: 19 May 2006 14:29:25 -0700; From: "johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com" <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com>  Subject: Re: XP1000 POST codesC Message-ID: <1148074165.240556.261240@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>    Tom Linden wrote: > > On Fri, 19 May 2006 14:08:50 -0700, johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com# > <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com> wrote:  >  > >  > > Hoff Hoffman wrote: $ > >> johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com wrote:L > >> > Does anyone have a listing of XP1000 POST beep codes?  The diagnostic& > >> > LED codes might be helpful too. > >> >K > >> > I shut down my XP1000 yesterday in preparation to adding some memory  > >> to J > >> > it and when I went to start it today it just beeped at me.  I get a > >> 1-2! > >> > pattern (1 long, 2 short).  > >>J > >> What are the POST LEDs you are seeing, starting from the power-switch > >> end of the LED array? > > B > > Starting on the top at D21: On On On Off   On On Off Off : D14 > >  > This is not good > D > 1110 	1100	Bcache data march test error 	1,2 	CPU card malfunction  B Well crap. :-(   I was afraid of something like this.  I have beenF getting random machine checks on this system for a month or so.  I wasC hoping it was due to the memory I scrounged from my odd n ends pile - (hence the planned upgrade).  Apparently not.    ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 14:36:41 -0700 # From: "Tom Linden" <tom@kednos.com>  Subject: Re: XP1000 POST codes) Message-ID: <op.s9tibfqrzgicya@hyrrokkin>   > On Fri, 19 May 2006 14:29:25 -0700, johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com  ! <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com> wrote:    >  > Tom Linden wrote: ? >> On Fri, 19 May 2006 14:08:50 -0700, johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com $ >> <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> > >> > Hoff Hoffman wrote:% >> >> johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com wrote: D >> >> > Does anyone have a listing of XP1000 POST beep codes?  The  
 >> diagnostic ' >> >> > LED codes might be helpful too.  >> >> > G >> >> > I shut down my XP1000 yesterday in preparation to adding some   	 >> memory  >> >> toK >> >> > it and when I went to start it today it just beeped at me.  I get a 	 >> >> 1-2 " >> >> > pattern (1 long, 2 short). >> >> K >> >> What are the POST LEDs you are seeing, starting from the power-switch  >> >> end of the LED array?  >> >C >> > Starting on the top at D21: On On On Off   On On Off Off : D14  >> > >> This is not good  >>E >> 1110 	1100	Bcache data march test error 	1,2 	CPU card malfunction  > D > Well crap. :-(   I was afraid of something like this.  I have beenH > getting random machine checks on this system for a month or so.  I wasE > hoping it was due to the memory I scrounged from my odd n ends pile / > (hence the planned upgrade).  Apparently not.  > J Is the memory in each bank identical? Try first pulling out all the memoryK in array 1 and populate array 0 with 4 identical DIMMs.  If the tests out    OKJ then proceed to array 1.  If not you may have a bad DIMM as well.  I had   one H act up like this and I thought it was dead, pulled the boards, clean theI contacts with an eraser, carefully reseated everything, and it worked.     Never   did what specifically was wrong.   ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 14:54:18 -0700 # From: "Tom Linden" <tom@kednos.com>  Subject: Re: XP1000 POST codes) Message-ID: <op.s9ti4s1mzgicya@hyrrokkin>   > On Fri, 19 May 2006 14:46:28 -0700, johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com  ! <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com> wrote:    >  > Tom Linden wrote: ? >> On Fri, 19 May 2006 14:29:25 -0700, johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com $ >> <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> > >> > Tom Linden wrote:B >> >> On Fri, 19 May 2006 14:08:50 -0700, johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com' >> >> <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com> wrote:  >> >>  >> >> >  >> >> > Hoff Hoffman wrote: ( >> >> >> johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com wrote:E >> >> >> > Does anyone have a listing of XP1000 POST beep codes?  The  >> >> diagnostic* >> >> >> > LED codes might be helpful too.
 >> >> >> >H >> >> >> > I shut down my XP1000 yesterday in preparation to adding some >> >> memory >> >> >> to J >> >> >> > it and when I went to start it today it just beeped at me.  I   >> get a >> >> >> 1-2% >> >> >> > pattern (1 long, 2 short).  >> >> >>C >> >> >> What are the POST LEDs you are seeing, starting from the    >> power-switch  >> >> >> end of the LED array? >> >> > F >> >> > Starting on the top at D21: On On On Off   On On Off Off : D14 >> >> >  >> >> This is not good >> >> H >> >> 1110 	1100	Bcache data march test error 	1,2 	CPU card malfunction >> >G >> > Well crap. :-(   I was afraid of something like this.  I have been K >> > getting random machine checks on this system for a month or so.  I was H >> > hoping it was due to the memory I scrounged from my odd n ends pile2 >> > (hence the planned upgrade).  Apparently not. >> >H >> Is the memory in each bank identical? Try first pulling out all the  	 >> memory J >> in array 1 and populate array 0 with 4 identical DIMMs.  If the tests   >> out >> OK K >> then proceed to array 1.  If not you may have a bad DIMM as well.  I had  >> oneK >> act up like this and I thought it was dead, pulled the boards, clean the I >> contacts with an eraser, carefully reseated everything, and it worked.  >> Never# >> did what specifically was wrong.  > I > I think I have a flakey CPU daughterboard.  The system has been sitting G > at the "EC" post code for about 30 minutes.  I shut it off and turned G > it back on and now it's working!  I did a SHOW DEVICE and SHOW CONFIG I > and SHOW MEMORY and got the usual display.  It shows 2GB of main memory I > and 4MB of Bcache.  Does anyone know of any of the tests I can run form ! > the console to test the Bcache?  > E > BTW, the diagnostic LED's show a "E8" (1110 0100) status.  Hopefuly  > that's normal. > K    M     L   Meaning of the Code           BEEP  Possible Cause Action to    RepairL 1110 	0100 	ISA super IO chip error 	2,2 	Reseat CPU card, chk cables, PCI   options, MLB malfunction   ------------------------------    Date: 19 May 2006 14:46:28 -0700; From: "johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com" <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com>  Subject: Re: XP1000 POST codesA Message-ID: <1148075188.360742.78170@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>    Tom Linden wrote: > > On Fri, 19 May 2006 14:29:25 -0700, johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com# > <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com> wrote:  >  > >  > > Tom Linden wrote: A > >> On Fri, 19 May 2006 14:08:50 -0700, johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com & > >> <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > Hoff Hoffman wrote:' > >> >> johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com wrote: D > >> >> > Does anyone have a listing of XP1000 POST beep codes?  The > >> diagnostic ) > >> >> > LED codes might be helpful too. 	 > >> >> > G > >> >> > I shut down my XP1000 yesterday in preparation to adding some  > >> memory 
 > >> >> toM > >> >> > it and when I went to start it today it just beeped at me.  I get a  > >> >> 1-2 $ > >> >> > pattern (1 long, 2 short). > >> >> M > >> >> What are the POST LEDs you are seeing, starting from the power-switch  > >> >> end of the LED array?  > >> >E > >> > Starting on the top at D21: On On On Off   On On Off Off : D14  > >> > > >> This is not good  > >>G > >> 1110 	1100	Bcache data march test error 	1,2 	CPU card malfunction  > > F > > Well crap. :-(   I was afraid of something like this.  I have beenJ > > getting random machine checks on this system for a month or so.  I wasG > > hoping it was due to the memory I scrounged from my odd n ends pile 1 > > (hence the planned upgrade).  Apparently not.  > > L > Is the memory in each bank identical? Try first pulling out all the memoryK > in array 1 and populate array 0 with 4 identical DIMMs.  If the tests out  > OKJ > then proceed to array 1.  If not you may have a bad DIMM as well.  I had > one J > act up like this and I thought it was dead, pulled the boards, clean theH > contacts with an eraser, carefully reseated everything, and it worked. > Never " > did what specifically was wrong.  G I think I have a flakey CPU daughterboard.  The system has been sitting E at the "EC" post code for about 30 minutes.  I shut it off and turned E it back on and now it's working!  I did a SHOW DEVICE and SHOW CONFIG G and SHOW MEMORY and got the usual display.  It shows 2GB of main memory G and 4MB of Bcache.  Does anyone know of any of the tests I can run form  the console to test the Bcache?   C BTW, the diagnostic LED's show a "E8" (1110 0100) status.  Hopefuly  that's normal.   ------------------------------    Date: 19 May 2006 15:08:13 -0700; From: "johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com" <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com>  Subject: Re: XP1000 POST codesB Message-ID: <1148076493.763067.97120@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>   Tom Linden wrote: > > On Fri, 19 May 2006 14:46:28 -0700, johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com# > <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com> wrote:  >  > >  > > Tom Linden wrote: A > >> On Fri, 19 May 2006 14:29:25 -0700, johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com & > >> <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > Tom Linden wrote:D > >> >> On Fri, 19 May 2006 14:08:50 -0700, johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com) > >> >> <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com> wrote:  > >> >> 	 > >> >> >  > >> >> > Hoff Hoffman wrote: * > >> >> >> johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com wrote:G > >> >> >> > Does anyone have a listing of XP1000 POST beep codes?  The  > >> >> diagnostic, > >> >> >> > LED codes might be helpful too. > >> >> >> >J > >> >> >> > I shut down my XP1000 yesterday in preparation to adding some > >> >> memory
 > >> >> >> to J > >> >> >> > it and when I went to start it today it just beeped at me.  I
 > >> get a > >> >> >> 1-2' > >> >> >> > pattern (1 long, 2 short). 
 > >> >> >>C > >> >> >> What are the POST LEDs you are seeing, starting from the  > >> power-switch   > >> >> >> end of the LED array?	 > >> >> > H > >> >> > Starting on the top at D21: On On On Off   On On Off Off : D14	 > >> >> >  > >> >> This is not good > >> >> J > >> >> 1110 	1100	Bcache data march test error 	1,2 	CPU card malfunction > >> >I > >> > Well crap. :-(   I was afraid of something like this.  I have been M > >> > getting random machine checks on this system for a month or so.  I was J > >> > hoping it was due to the memory I scrounged from my odd n ends pile4 > >> > (hence the planned upgrade).  Apparently not. > >> >H > >> Is the memory in each bank identical? Try first pulling out all the > >> memory J > >> in array 1 and populate array 0 with 4 identical DIMMs.  If the tests > >> out > >> OK M > >> then proceed to array 1.  If not you may have a bad DIMM as well.  I had  > >> oneM > >> act up like this and I thought it was dead, pulled the boards, clean the K > >> contacts with an eraser, carefully reseated everything, and it worked. 
 > >> Never% > >> did what specifically was wrong.  > > K > > I think I have a flakey CPU daughterboard.  The system has been sitting I > > at the "EC" post code for about 30 minutes.  I shut it off and turned I > > it back on and now it's working!  I did a SHOW DEVICE and SHOW CONFIG K > > and SHOW MEMORY and got the usual display.  It shows 2GB of main memory K > > and 4MB of Bcache.  Does anyone know of any of the tests I can run form # > > the console to test the Bcache?  > > G > > BTW, the diagnostic LED's show a "E8" (1110 0100) status.  Hopefuly  > > that's normal. > > K >    M     L   Meaning of the Code           BEEP  Possible Cause Action to  > RepairL > 1110 	0100 	ISA super IO chip error 	2,2 	Reseat CPU card, chk cables, PCI > options, MLB malfunction  E Maybe that's an error due to not having a floppy installed?  Probably A not.  I have another XP that's working normally and has that same G diagnostic code, but I know it's got a bum floppy drive installed.  I'm D also back to the 1-2 beep and the "EC" LED display after powering it7 off and then back on.  Something is surely flakey here.    Thanks for your help Tom.    ------------------------------  # Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 22:34:49 GMT , From: Hoff Hoffman <hoff-remove-this@hp.com> Subject: Re: XP1000 POST codes0 Message-ID: <dKrbg.854$L43.213@news.cpqcorp.net>   johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com wrote:   I > I think I have a flakey CPU daughterboard.  The system has been sitting G > at the "EC" post code for about 30 minutes.  I shut it off and turned G > it back on and now it's working!  I did a SHOW DEVICE and SHOW CONFIG I > and SHOW MEMORY and got the usual display.  It shows 2GB of main memory I > and 4MB of Bcache.  Does anyone know of any of the tests I can run form ! > the console to test the Bcache?   E    With apparent hardware error(s) within the system core, continued  G stable operation is comparatively unlikely.  I'd expect this box to be  8 increasingly likely to throw machine checks and crashes.  F    You may well have a thermal-related problem, or a weak or marginal F component, or both.  In addition to marginal components in and around G the processor and the four megabyte B-cache secondary cache, there can  I also exist marginal connections in sockets or traces.  This would not be  F the first time that thermally-triggered or intermittent problems have D been seen within memory, obviously, and I might infer that this was F where you were going when this whole thread kicked off; that you were I seeking to replace the DIMMs in an attempt to resolve the machine checks.   G    This would all track with the intermittent machine checks that have  + been reported over the past month, as well.   I    I'd tend to expect to start swapping major hunks of this AlphaStation  H XP1000 box in the near future, and probably first starting with the CPU F daughter card.  Or I'd expect to swap this out for a replacement box, ' depending on the availability of parts.    ------------------------------  # Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 18:45:28 GMT & From: John Reagan <john.reagan@hp.com>K Subject: Re: XP1000 SRM Firmware (was: Re: Digital PWS 500au Firmware V6.9) 0 Message-ID: <cnobg.838$J23.106@news.cpqcorp.net>   Paul Sture wrote:    > J > There was a workstation known as XP900. I had one at work at one point, 9 > though I don't think it actually _said_ XP900 anywhere.   G The three in my group all say "Compaq Alphastation XP900" on the front.    --   John Reagan / HP Pascal/{A|I}MACRO for OpenVMS Project Leader  Hewlett-Packard Company    ------------------------------    Date: 19 May 2006 21:24:54 +01006 From: eplan@langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER)K Subject: Re: XP1000 SRM Firmware (was: Re: Digital PWS 500au Firmware V6.9) * Message-ID: <446e37a6@news.langstoeger.at>  m In article <47da8$446df5df$50db5015$25581@news.hispeed.ch>, Paul Sture <paul.sture.nospam@hispeed.ch> writes:  >Tom Linden wrote:* >> BTW was there another system a  server,B >> 900 or such, that used some of the same hardware as the XP1000? > I >There was a workstation known as XP900. I had one at work at one point,  8 >though I don't think it actually _said_ XP900 anywhere.  3 The XP900 and the DS10 (and the VS10) are the same. J You can switch with a SRM (I2C) command (which I did, thanks David T) from calling itself this or that.   --   Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTOEGER % Network and OpenVMS system specialist  E-mail  peter@langstoeger.atF A-1030 VIENNA  AUSTRIA              I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist   ------------------------------  # Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 20:38:47 GMT , From: Hoff Hoffman <hoff-remove-this@hp.com>K Subject: Re: XP1000 SRM Firmware (was: Re: Digital PWS 500au Firmware V6.9) 0 Message-ID: <r1qbg.846$E23.469@news.cpqcorp.net>    Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER wrote:a > In article <YHmbg.827$tJ2.474@news.cpqcorp.net>, Hoff Hoffman <hoff-remove-this@hp.com> writes:  >> Tom Linden wrote: >>' >>> All I wanted was WWIDMGR support.   ' >>   That's not likely going to happen.  > > > That's what we expect, but still try to reverse. Please !!!!    H    If there is a specific software or hardware order contingent on this H capability or if a formal request for customization should be received, G I do expect the addition of this or of most any other console features  F or updates can at least be entertained for this or other systems.  (I F can certainly offer to pass these customization requests along to the ! Alpha hardware management folks.)   F    As for alternatives, the AlphaServer DS, ES, and GS series servers H are available (new systems can be ordered through 27-Oct-2006, upgrades G through 2007, and used boxes from any series can be acquired, well, as  B and when available), and you can also look to move to new or used 3 Integrity servers; to the current OpenVMS platform.    ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2006.278 ************************