Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ucbvax!SDSC.ARPA!GKN From: GKN@SDSC.ARPA.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: Re: Another Excelan question... Message-ID: <8701302237.AA13958@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 30-Jan-87 11:35:49 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8701302237.AA13958 Posted: Fri Jan 30 11:35:49 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 31-Jan-87 08:43:14 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: San Diego Supercomputer Center Lines: 30 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa From: "Lynette (Hanus) Roy" Subject: Another Excelan question... Date: Tue, 27 Jan 87 13:00 ??? We had the board installed on a VAX 11/785 with no problems. Last weekend, we had it moved to a different 11/785 in the cluster. [...] ...Monday a.m. users started complaining of *random* transposed characters and garbage on the screen when using TELNET to get to the suns or [...] It could be a faulty UNIBUS adapter. I had one once which tended to "stutter" sometimes and I'd get two of whatever the last quantity was that was shipped down the UNIBUS. It drove me crazy because the only thing that really tended to happen on were largish DECnet copies over a DMR-11, and the DMR driver and hardware (according to the base table) didn't detect any errors, but DAP sure did. gkn -------------------------------------- Arpa: GKN@SDSC.ARPA Bitnet: GKN@SDSC Span: SDSC::GKN (5.600) USPS: Gerard K. Newman San Diego Supercomputer Center P.O. Box 85608 San Diego, CA 92138 AT&T: 619.534.5076 -------