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From: J.A.Jones@lut.ac.uk (Jeff Jones) 
Subject: help needed with fixing a R80 disk drive
Reply-To: J.A.Jones@lut.ac.uk (Jeff Jones)
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 13:23:04 GMT


Hello,
	I have a Vax 11/730 fitted with a RL02 and a R80 disk drive. I
have recently moved this system into my home and now it fails to boot. I
thought at first this was a media problem due to the move but on closer
inspection the hard disk fails its power on tests. All the front panel
light stay on and the disk does not spin up.

	After checking the connecting cables to no avail I decided to
RTFM and settled down to read the R80 disk drive user guide
(EK-00R80-UG-001) and, lo and behold, on page 2-9 I found the microcode
diagnostic checkout procedure. So armed only with a screwdriver I opened
up the powered up disk drive and set about the tests. All seems okay
until I got to step 4 which says,

	a. Set the thumbwheel switches to "22."
	b. push the ENTER switch and release. The LEDs will momentarily 
display "22" (0010 0010 binary).

	Okay so far !

	c. If no errors are encountered, the LEDs will then display
"AA" (1010 1010 binary). If any display other than "AA" is obserevd,
refer to the R80 disk drive service manual for corrective action.

	Not a sign of "AA" instead I get "53" (0101 0011 binary).

So I looked through the small stack of manuals I received with the
system and didn't find the service manual (suprise,suprise). There is
also no mention of the meaning of these codes in the user manual.

So does anybody out there know what the code "53" means ?
Is the fault fixable ?

Better still does anybody have a list of all the possible error codes ?

Many, many thanks in advance.

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From: sysop                           
Subject: RE: Bug w/ self-referencing backlink pointer.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: Department of Nuclear Engineering Sciences
Date: 27 Aug 1992 22:03 EST  

Net,

	Recently I posted a problem with ANALYZE/DISK[/REPAIR] and bunches
of files with backlinks to null directory (ie. []file.name).  Turned out that
ANALYZE was hanging in a loop because a directory (also full of files) I had
deleted had somehow ended up with a backlink to itself while getting deleted.
It never got deleted; just ended up in the cache.  (I believe I used DELTREE,
which was posted sowhere on news not to long ago, to do the delete.)  This
caused a bottleneck of deleted files!

	Thanks to Rick Desko for responding to my e-mail, even after DSS could
not seem to help me.  He provided me with a MACRO program that he wrote
(just recently on a similar case) that turned of the directory attribute bit
so that ANALYZE wouldn't loop, and move the file(s) to [SYSLOST]. Thanks Rick!

	Out of this dilemma I wrote a fortran program that will let you enter
a file by its' FID into a directory.  This way, if you know the FID, even 
though it no longer has a directory entry anymore (as was my case), you may
enter the file and then properly delete it (or simply have multiple links for
existing files like:  $ set file/enter=xxxx).

	I am posting the source for ENTER on vmsnet.sources.  Right now it
runs strictly interactive.  I'm probably going to add a CLD so that it will
run a little smoother and allow command line execution, and will eventually
repost with the mods.

Thanks for reading,
-S

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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: oddjob@oz.plymouth.edu (Andrew C. Stoffel)
Subject: Problems installing software (question ...)
Reply-To: oddjob@oz.plymouth.edu (Andrew C. Stoffel)
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 01:40:38 GMT

I'm having a "small" problem installing some software and was
wondering if anyone could help me (before I resort to calling DEC
or whom-ever support) at least figure out what is wrong......

I've been installing software on a VAXstation 3100 with the ultimate
goal of creating a stable testbed for various software installations/
upgrades. 

I'm at the point where the configuration rarely crashes and is usable
for long periods of time. I even have decnet,lat,decwindows, fms, etc.
installed & working..... ( oh yeah... I put Soft PC on it today)

What I can't sem to do is install certain software packages. I can't
get Multinet (whatever the latest version is), the Message Router
(3.2), and DecWrite 2.0 to install. The machine gets half-way through
and crashes, sometimes VERY hard. 

The follwoing are examples (not verbatim) of the errors I get with the
above packages-->
Multinet --> 	the VERY last stage (configure) crashes, trying to
		compile the data file that holds ip address, etc. with
		an over quota error (what quota it doesn't say)
		(I'm just throwing this one in.... no idea if it's
		related to the others....)

Message Router->It can't find some symbol when linking some part of 
		save set B (the VERY first time this happened with
		save set C, but ever since it's been save set B)
		[I called software support on this... & supposedly
		it's a problem with the save sets & DEC is sending
		me patches for it]
DECWrite -->	It gets to save-set I or J and says it can't continue
		and cancels the install.....

It SEEMS as if this VAXstation can't handle a LOT of disk access when
installing software....... small installations worked fine (Soft PC
took less than 10 minutes...., FMS was easy, so to was CPS...) but
anything that takes time crashes....

I've looked at the assorted parameters for the system but I really
have no idea what to look for....i have MORE than enough disk space
(500meg free on 3 drives)... and seem to have enough memory...

What do I look for ? This problem seems too vague to call anyone
about... and these are all programs I got off of CD-ROM's (I did try
to install DECwrite from tape but that crashed  at a different
save-set instead) & it seems like too much for these save sets to be
bad on four different CD's...

ANY help would be appreciated....

-Andy-
-- 
|"The Snark WAS a Boojum, you see!"   |                                |
|"Reality !?! Isn't that something    |     andys@psc.plymouth.edu     |
|    you sprinkle on ice ??"          |     oddjob@oz.plymouth.edu     |
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: jody@lib.haifa.ac.il (Yosef Branse)
Subject: Need Info and Advice re VMS DCX Routines 
Organization: Haifa University Library
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:29:02 GMT

While skimming the VMS System Routines manual for something else, I found
a chapter entitled "Data Compression/Expansion (DCX) Routines." The
introductory note states "There is no DCL-level interface to this facility nor
is there a DCX utility."

With a good bit of time and effort, I suppose I could learn how to use these
routines to write my own compression/decompression programs. But since I have
no prior experience, I'd like to pose a few questions first:

1) Is it correct to assume that since the DCX routines are part of VMS, they
will be "better" (however that may be defined - faster, more reliable, etc.)
than other available compression packages for processing files in our system (a
VAX 6320 running VMS 5.4-3, soon to upgrade to 5.5)?

2) Does anyone else have experience exploiting these routines? Would you
recommend them? 

3) Are there any publically available packages based on DCX?

4) Assuming that the answer to 1) is yes and 3) is no - would the advantage of
DCX be sufficient to warrant trying to master it? Or would it be best to just
use something already available?  

Thank you for your help.

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From: alanmoore@yang.earlham.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Submitting Jobs for Last Day of Month
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:59:39 GMT
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

In article <1992Aug25.102008.28397@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, jmacdonald@mta.ca writes:
> I am wondering if anyone has a nifty way to have jobs submit themselves for the
> last day of the month.  Thank-you.

This is what I use...

$ mon=F$cvtime("+33-","absolute")
$ next_submit_date = "1"+ (mon - f$element(0,"-",mon) - f$element(1," ",mon))
$ submit/after="''next_submit_date'" filename.com

Alan Moore                              alanmoore@yang.earlham.edu
System/Network Manager, Postmaster      (317)983-1437
Earlham College
Richmond, IN
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: Jeff E Mandel <mandel@tmc.tulane.edu>
Subject: What causes this DECNet OPCOM message?
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-27791]: mandel.anes.tulane.edu
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6C93565E0013009@mandel.anes.tulane.edu>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 1 Sep 92 20:57:41 GMT
Organization: Tulane University School of Medicine
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:57:43 GMT

I have been getting a lot of messages to my operator console lately of
the form:

DECnet event 0.7, aborted service request
From node 1.210 (ANESTH), 31-AUG-1992 15:50:28.54
Circuit QNA-0, Line open error, File open error, Tertiary loader
%MOM-E-OPENIN, error opening SYS$COMMON:[MOM$SYSTEM]ISL_LVAX_K.SYS; as
input
-RMS-E-FNF, file not found

followed by an Ethernet address.  Over the last two months, there have
been 179 entries from 14 different Ethernet addresses, which I suspect
are all terminal servers. I have politely suggested to the folks who own
the multiple terminal servers for the hospital that they check their
configuration, but unless I can clearly explain to them what is going on,
they don't want to be bothered. Other than increasing the size of my
logs, it doesn't seem to be affecting me. Should I worry about this? If I
create an empty file SYS$COMMON:[MOM$SYSTEM]ISL_LVAX_K.SYS, will it bring
the servers to their knees?

Thanks,
Jeff E Mandel MD MS
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA

mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu
From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Memory listing
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:31:48 GMT
Organization: Computervision - A Division of Prime Computer

In article <01GOA2PTRDHE0001BH@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>, DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing) writes:
> Raj Jathar, rdj@bass.bu.edu, wrote:
>>Paging File Usage (pages):                      Free  Reservable       Total
>>  DISK$VAXVMSRL054:[SYS0.SYSEXE]SWAPFILE.SYS
>>                                                6296        6296        6296
>>  DISK$VAXVMSRL054:[SYS0.SYSEXE]PAGEFILE.SYS
>>                                               17613      -12611       30000
>>
>>While most of the stuff is either self-explanatory or intuitively
>>clear, I'm not quite sure what to make of the negative value.  Is that
>>simply because of a subtracted offset, or is it the complement or a
>>simlarly trivial addressing question?
> 
> Each user is allowed to use up to PGFLQUOTA (a SYSUAF value) pages of the
> page file.  (Processes have a similar limit).  When a process is created,
> the system deducts the PGFLQUOTA value from the "reserved" value in the
> page file.  The "reserved" value isn't significant, and should be ignored --
> it just means "if all proceses used up ALL the virtual memory they are 
> allowed, your page file would be 12611 pages too small."

Actually this isn't completely correct.  At process creation PGFLQUOTA pages
are not reserved for the process.  Pages are reserved in discrete chunks of, I
believe, 2048 pages.  When this is consumed, another chunk is reserved.  One of
the effects of this reservation as needed is that a given process can end up
paging to as many as four different page files.

> You should, instead, compare the "free" value, when the system is heavily
> loaded, with the "total" value.  You should have at least 50% of the page 
> file free.

This is the rule of thumb that I've followed as well and it's worked quite
well.

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From: davidc@montagar.com (David L. Cathey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DECW$LOGIN_BACKGROUND & XV
Date: 26 Aug 92 00:08:34 GMT
Organization: Montagar Software Concepts, Plano TX

In article <01GNYEL28MDCANBFLB@psulias.bitnet>, JLW@PSULIAS.PSU.EDU ("J.Lance Wilkinson, 814-865-1818") writes:
>                                       ... the backdrops only hang on through
> the login dialog -- as soon as the user's individual applications begin to
> launch, it seems to go away, leaving the background *previously* customized in
> the Session Manager Option "Screen Background...".

	Works as designed?

> | J.Lance Wilkinson ("Lance")            BitNet:    JLW@PSULIAS.BITNET      |
> | Systems Design Specialist - Lead       InterNet:  JLW@PSULIAS.PSU.EDU     |
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From: techentin@MAYO.EDU (Bob Techentin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE:  Problems with DEC-GKS and DECWindows workstation
Date: 25 Aug 92 03:51:37 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Bernhard Reissenauer, <reissen@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de> posted:

>  Problems with DEC-GKS and DEC-WINDOWS workstation
 ... some stuff deleted ...
>  
>  On DECstations with the DEC window manager everything works fine.
  ...  
>  But with other window managers (eg. twm or the NCD window manager)
>  only a icon appears, and I have to open the window manually with the
>  mouse.

We saw this same behavior when testing our DEC-GKS applications.
We are currently running GKS 4.2, VMS 5.5 and DECwindows MOTIF v1.0
(which is also sometimes called DECwindows v3.0).

We tried testing our software on a "customer configuration" of GKS 4.1,
VMS 5.4 and DECwindows 2.1, and encountered the same problem - the 
application would create a GKS icon, but never de-iconify.  

This happened only when running the application on the VMS 5.4 DECW 2.1
client, using VMS 5.4 MOTIF 1.0 (display) servers.  We did not fix this
problem (too many others :-), but it appeared that the DECwindows 2.1
driver didn't communicate well with the MOTIF window manager.

You might try upgrading your application client to MOTIF, or if you 
are already using MOTIF but are selecting the DECwindows 211 driver 
for other reasons, follow the GKS release notes instructions for using
the 211 device handler specifically for MOTIF clients.


Bob Techentin                              Internet: Techentin@Mayo.Edu
Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN, 55905 USA             (507) 284-2702
From: davidc@montagar.com (David L. Cathey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: equivalent to SET BOOT
Date: 2 Sep 92 00:02:39 GMT
Organization: Montagar Software Concepts, Plano TX

In article <10980@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu>, awb702@jaguar.uofs.edu (Alex W Bryant) writes:
> 
> 	Does anyone know if it is possible to issue an equivalent to the 
>>>>SET BOOT <nickname> [>boot-parameters>], without bringing down the system.
> We are running VMS5.5 on a 4010, 6320, and a 6610.  Thanks.

	Yes, it is possible, however, I don't have the specifics for your
harware types.

	The boot information is stored in NVRAM in high memory.  This memory
is accessed by the ROM console program (which is bascially a VAX routine
running in physical address mode), and is available in virtual mode by
mapping the proper PFN's (See $CRMPSC) to the process and reading/writing
them.

	Unfortunately, I don't know where those PFN's are at, as it has 
been a while since I've seen the code to do that (change next boot device 
while VMS is running, so you can boot somewhere else later...)

> ________________________________________________________________________
> Alex W Bryant - UCS                               University of Scranton
> awb702@jaguar.ucs.uofs.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: welchb@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: Re: RS232 Test connector pinout?
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:26:49 GMT

In article <9a2HqB1w164w@owl.isis.org>, doug@owl.isis.org (Douglas W Murray) writes:
> Hi all,
> 
> Would anyone have available the pinout for the test connector that is used 
> for loopback testing on a RS232 port?  I occasionally needed physically test 


From a BlackBox Catalog, and for my laziness just listing the same ones which
appear on my el cheapo Radio Shack tester:
2-TD transmitted data
3-RD receive data
4-RTS request to send
5-CTS clear to send
6-DSR data set ready
20-DTR data terminal ready
CD - I am confused.  I thought it meant Carrier Detect, and came on when
you called a computer and got back the tone which said "I am a computer,
not a voice",  but the catalog lists pin 20 as CD, but with the description
Data Terminal Ready; it has nothing with the official name CD.
How about 8-CF Received Line Signal Detector?  You can cheat by listening
in on an extension phone; unscrew the mouthpiece so you will not generate
any interfering noise.

Hope I helped instead of making things worse; but no one else posted.
-- 
Brendan Welch, UMass/Lowell, W1LPG,  welchb@woods.ulowell.edu
From: tillman@swdev.si.com ("Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX Support, x8425")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Q: LSEdit with DECwindows configuration
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:41:14 GMT
Organization: The Internet

>Copy DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS:EVE$DEFAULTS.DAT into wherever DECW$USER_DEFAULTS
>points, and modify it as you see fit.

Interesting.  First, LSE V4.0 (and V3.1) uses LSE$DEFAULTS.DAT, not 
EVE$DEFAULTS.DAT as a resource file.  Second, EVE uses EVE.DAT as a resource 
file, not EVE$DEFAULTS.DAT as a resource file.  There is no EVE$DEFAULTS.DAT 
file in DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS (or anywhere, for that matter) on a standard VMS 
system.  I have a hard time believing that your advice is going to work.  I've 
been trying to get DEC in Colorado to even acknowledge that LSE uses resources.  
Their response is that it's not documented and not supported and so you're on 
your own.

I have demonstrated to DEC that there are problems with resources and LSE V4.0 
that just didn't exist with V3.1.  I've found a compination of LSE$DEFAULTS.DAT 
and LSE$COMMAND.LSE that works, but I pretty much had to do so on my own.  No 
one at a customer support center knows about the resources and the engineers 
won't tell anyone.

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 Smiths Industries, Inc.     |
 4141 Eastern Ave., MS129    | Hey, I said this stuff myself.
 Grand Rapids, MI 49518-8727 | My company has no part in it.
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From: ARNE@ko.hhs.dk (Arne Vajhxj)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: WHO.COM (UIC/username translation) addendum
Date: 2 Sep 92 11:42:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

> >>
> >>$! UAF.COM
> >>  ...
> >>$ define sysuaf SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]SYSUAF.DAT !<- sysuaf.dat must be world read
> >>  ...
>  ^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > NOT!
> >
> 
> In order for the command procedure to run, sysuaf.dat has to be world read.
> Either that or the procedure can only be used by a privileged user. How you
> manage your site's security is up to you. WYSIWYG

Well I did not save the original posting, but I assume, that it is correct,
that it will only run when SYSUAF can be read.

But I will strongly recommend NOT to let SYSUAF.DAT be world readable.

It is a BIG potential security risk.

It will be very simple to write a passwords cracker, that test a list
of commonly used password against all usernames, by reading username and
encrypted passwords (and salt) out of such a file.

All system-managers must find their own level of security, so it is OK to
post such a COM-file and tell how it can be used, but please inform people
about the potential security problem. Thay need to have all the information
to make a good decision !!!!

                                                          Arne

Arne Vajhxj                             local DECNET:  KO::ARNE
Computer Department                     PSI:           PSI%23831001304030::ARNE
Business School of Southern Denmark     Internet:      ARNE@KO.HHS.DK
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph B. Gurman)
Subject: Anybody have UCX 2.0 yet?
Keywords: UCX, DEC TCP/IP for VMS, SMTP
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:57:34 GMT

    A call to Colorado Springs confimed that (i) UCX 2.0 is out, (ii) it
does (finally) include support for SMTP and remote printing and all
sorts of other things, (iii) the name has been changed (clearly to
protect the guilty) to DEC TCP/IP for VMS 2.0.
    Does anybody have the savesets yet who's willing to put them on an
anonymous ftp site? I'd really like to have people be able to send mail
to me over the Internet without routing it through the Ultrix
machine....
    Thanks,
						Joe Gurman

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Greenbelt MD 20771 USA / gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov
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