INFO-VAX Mon, 05 Mar 2007 Volume 2007 : Issue 127 Contents: Re: Alpha Server 1200 memory configuration quiz Re: Alpha Server 1200 memory configuration quiz Re: Kermit Large File Support OT: number of shadowset members (was:Re: VOLSHAD - how many I/Os when used) Paul BEAUDOIN/MDBK/HSBC is out of the office. Re: Purveyor CGI mailbox capacity [bit long winded] Re: SCSI disk firmware update question VOLSHAD - how many I/Os when used Re: Wanted: MicroVAX I / VAXstation I owners Re: Wanted: MicroVAX I / VAXstation I owners ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 4 Mar 2007 11:59:41 -0800 From: timotist@freemail.hu Subject: Re: Alpha Server 1200 memory configuration quiz Message-ID: <1173038381.227927.31990@64g2000cwx.googlegroups.com> On Mar 3, 9:22 pm, Tad Winters wrote: > timot...@freemail.hu wrote innews:1172869244.454459.238780@30g2000cwc.googlegroups.com: > > > > > Same kind of problem here. Well, in fact i am an Alpha newbie, so i > > guess i messed up something. Anyways: it's anAlphaServer1200 box, > > one 5/533 cpu, 2 sticks of 128MB RAM branded Compaq 20-A1200-08 for a > > total of 256MB. Works quite well, but i managed to pick up 4 new > > modules for a really friendly price, which are: IBM 64MB 100MHz > > registered ECC SD, FRU 33L3068. > > So with the 128MB modules in slot0, and 64MB modules in slot1&2, i > > turn on the system and SRM shows this: > > 0 DIMM 256 0 > > 1 DIMM 0 20000000 - not configured properly > > 2 DIMM 0 40000000 - not configured properly > > Without the original modules (64MB sticks in 0&1) i don't even get > > SRM. > > Possible clue is, while the Compaq modules have 9 chips on either side > > of them, the IBM's got 9 chips total (4 on one side, 5 on the other). > > Maybe they are single sided modules and that's a problem? > > Any help is much appreciated! > > > Cheers, > > Tamas > > It's been too long since I examined the memory options for the 1200. > However, somewhere along the way I remember firmware being an issue. Make > sure your firmware is up to the newest level and then try again. (Largest > modules in the lowest numbered slots.) Updated the firmware to the latest version for the AS1200 (v6.0-4), but it's still the same. Anyways, thanks for the suggestion. Tamas ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:47:11 -0700 From: Jeff Campbell Subject: Re: Alpha Server 1200 memory configuration quiz Message-ID: <1173073712_11171@sp6iad.superfeed.net> timotist@freemail.hu wrote: > On Mar 3, 9:22 pm, Tad Winters > wrote: >> timot...@freemail.hu wrote innews:1172869244.454459.238780@30g2000cwc.googlegroups.com: >> >> >> >>> Same kind of problem here. Well, in fact i am an Alpha newbie, so i >>> guess i messed up something. Anyways: it's anAlphaServer1200 box, >>> one 5/533 cpu, 2 sticks of 128MB RAM branded Compaq 20-A1200-08 for a >>> total of 256MB. Works quite well, but i managed to pick up 4 new >>> modules for a really friendly price, which are: IBM 64MB 100MHz >>> registered ECC SD, FRU 33L3068. >>> So with the 128MB modules in slot0, and 64MB modules in slot1&2, i >>> turn on the system and SRM shows this: >>> 0 DIMM 256 0 >>> 1 DIMM 0 20000000 - not configured properly >>> 2 DIMM 0 40000000 - not configured properly >>> Without the original modules (64MB sticks in 0&1) i don't even get >>> SRM. >>> Possible clue is, while the Compaq modules have 9 chips on either side >>> of them, the IBM's got 9 chips total (4 on one side, 5 on the other). >>> Maybe they are single sided modules and that's a problem? >>> Any help is much appreciated! >>> Cheers, >>> Tamas >> It's been too long since I examined the memory options for the 1200. >> However, somewhere along the way I remember firmware being an issue. Make >> sure your firmware is up to the newest level and then try again. (Largest >> modules in the lowest numbered slots.) > > Updated the firmware to the latest version for the AS1200 (v6.0-4), > but it's still the same. Anyways, thanks for the suggestion. > > Tamas > I did a quick Google search but did not find what I was looking for - the layout of the IBM memory stick. That is, how *wide*, in terms of bits, the output bus is. The AS1200 memory bus is 144 bits wide, each memory card slot supplies 72 bits. If the IBM memory you have is 36 bits wide, it won't ever work. Jeff ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 14:54:14 -0500 From: "William Webb" Subject: Re: Kermit Large File Support Message-ID: <8660a3a10703041154t723c657fp744723bdaafe2568@mail.gmail.com> On 3/3/07, Steven M. Schweda wrote: > By the way, I've been corresponding with Mr. da Cruz regarding this > stuff, and there's more than a little hope of seeing support for large > files in Kermit for VMS on non-VAX systems (and support for the optional > "Built-in FTP client", albeit not supporting any of the fancy VMS > attribute preservation schemes) in the next pre-release Kermit kit. > (You'll probably get command-line case preservation, too, with SET PROC > /PARS = EXTE.) And, if I didn't break too much, probably in the next > real release, as well. > > I don't know when anything will appear, but I suspect that there will > be an announcment when it does. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Steven M. Schweda sms@antinode-org > 382 South Warwick Street (+1) 651-699-9818 > Saint Paul MN 55105-2547 > Well, having had an email exchange with Frank da Cruz (for the first time in over a decade) this week, I think I'll let him know that this is being discussed here. He might have something to say about that... WWWebb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:33:01 -0500 From: bradhamilton Subject: OT: number of shadowset members (was:Re: VOLSHAD - how many I/Os when used) Message-ID: <45EB491D.4060805@comcast.net> John wrote: > What if you have more than two members? > > For example, mount the shadow set with four members: > > $ MOUNT /SYSTEM /SHADOW=(mem1,mem2,mem3,mem4)