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From: oberman@rogue.llnl.gov
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Subject: Re: DECnet problem/protocol question
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Date: 24 Jul 90 15:52:08 GMT
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In article <4084@dogie.macc.wisc.edu>, jrosen@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jay Rosenbloom) writes:
> I'm trying to help someone copy a file between DECnet systems using the VMS
> COPY command and we are getting the message "-RMS-E-CRC, network DAP level CRC
> check failed"  when RMS closes the target file .  The source machine is a
> microvax I running VMS 4.5.  We have tried several target machines with no 
> success.  The one target that seemed most likely to succeed (but didn't) was
> also a VMS 4.5 machine on the same cable segment (in the same room) as the
> source machine.   
 
This has been a long time, so memory is a bit faded, but there was a bug in VMS
V4.something that caused these errors. DEC put out a patch for it in either
V4.6 or V4.7. So it could be this bug that is biting you.

The data IS corrupted, but by software, not hardware. (Or maybe you have some
sort of bus error that bypasses the data layer checks.)

					R. Kevin Oberman
					Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
					Internet: oberman@icdc.llnl.gov
   					(415) 422-6955

Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing
and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.