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From: wcs@ho95b.UUCP (59577)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: System V - RA81???  Good news / Bad news
Message-ID: <146@ho95b.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-May-84 15:32:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 24 15:32:12 1984
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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>	"Has anyone installed System V on a 750 with RA81's?  It
>	appears from the documentation to be impossible..."

Surprise!  DEC didn't warn us about that when they sold us our
system, either.  We have a driver that our local computer center
put together, but  it's only one of their early versions, and
it's not production quality.  I don't know if they've fixed it
yet.  The problem seems to be getting a
UDA50 Unibus disk controller driver working well; our
single-Unibus system occasionally gets deadlocked and freezes
(the lights go out on the disk drive and even the system clock
stops.)  

However, DEC has a driver for System V, which several sites here
have beta-test versions of, and they're working on a System V
Release 2 upgrade of it.  The DEC Beta-version supposedly works very well.
Maybe your local DEC sales person can get you a copy.  The DEC
person we've dealt with is Dave Lehnert (sp?); our local DEC
office is +1-201-946-9403.
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