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From: heinzl_c@apollo.HP.COM (Carl Heinzl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Supposed nasties in MD12 prom...
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Date: 1 Dec 90 19:19:00 GMT
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Georg,

>Now that I'm at it : Are You also experiencing lots of nasties in the 
>MD of the 400t ? 'EX'ing a commandfile, e.g. salvol, leaving it and
>trying to 'EX' another just barks with strange error-messages in Hex.

You don't mention what version of the MD prom you have, but I just performed
the same sequence of instructions (in my case, I used calendar for the
second command, self_test for the third, and domain_os for the fourth,
since you didn't specify exactly what you tried next) and everything worked fine 
(using rev 1.4).  What other "nasties" are you experiencing (you DID say lots)???

>Is that why the reset-button is on the front ;-) ?
There's ALSO an "RE" command in the prom.  This command has the advantage of
not executing all the HP reset code performed either during powerup or by hitting
the reset button and therefore takes less time.

-Carl-

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