[HECnet] VAX diagnostics?

[Johnny Billquist]

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

   Johnny

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