<html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">Diags didn't ship with VMS. They were DEC proprietary and wiped when a customer was off DEC maintenance. <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">The tape was called Vaxpax and at the 8650 VMS 4.2 time frame they needed compatibility mode to run. I left DEC in '86 and the third party TRW diags were not as impressive. Alliant and Masscomp built similar diag supervisors which were better than stuff I saw on machines like Concurrent/Perkin-Elmer boxes... XXDP/DEC 11 was better than their diags. <br><br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote" >On Sep 9, 2018, at 12:01, Johnny Billquist <<a href="mailto:bqt@softjar.se" target="_blank">bqt@softjar.se</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="blue">Hi.<br><br>On 2018-09-09 17:54, Keith Halewood wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> What about [sys0.syscommon.sysmaint] ?<br> I’m not close to my simh vaxen at the moment.<br></blockquote><br>Nothing there. I also checked the distribution CD, and there is nothing <br>there either, unless it's in some saveset.<br><br> Johnny<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> Keith<br> <br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 9 Sep 2018, at 08:50, Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> wrote:<br><br> I've been playing around a little with out 8650 lately, and finally got irritated enough at the limitation of some diagnostics that I decided to read up a bit.<br><br> The problem is that we have a lot of diagnostics for the 8650, however, they are from around 1990, when the console pack was created. Some devices, such as RA73 (of which we have a bunch connected) are newer than that, so our diagnostics do not know about them, and therefore ignore them.<br><br> Reading up on this turned out that the autosized tool, called EVSBA, is generic and used on all models. And we have version 7.2 on our pack, and we need to have version 7.5 in order to have it handle RA73 disks.<br><br> Reading more, it sounded like these programs would normally live in VMS as well, under [SYS0.SYSMAINT]. However, the VMS I have, which was installed from the 7.3 CD distribution, have nothing in [SYS0.SYSMAINT], so now my obvious question is, do anyone have "modern" versions of the diagnostics programs?<br><br> EVSBA would be one obvious one I'm looking for, but EVRL* which are all the tools for RA disks are also interesting. I'm not sure if our current versions would handle an RA73 either.<br><br> If people have other bits, that would also be nice. If they are on HECnet, even better, since if I boot VMS, our 8650 is also on HECnet, so that would make copying really easy. But if you have them somewhere else, that's also usable.<br><br> Johnny<br><br> -- <br> Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus<br> || on a psychedelic trip<br> email: bqt@softjar.se || Reading murder books<br> pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol<br></blockquote></blockquote></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>