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From: darin@laic.UUCP (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: BACKUP under VMS 4.6 needs PHY_IO !?!?!
Message-ID: <130@laic.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 17:22:08 GMT
References: <880106185356.00b@CitHex.Caltech.Edu>
Organization: Lockheed AI Center, Menlo Park
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In article <880106185356.00b@CitHex.Caltech.Edu>, carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
> 
>  > They said BACKUP currently needs the privilege PHY_IO !
> 
> That's odd.  We've been running VMS 4.6 for over a month,  don't  have  BACKUP
> INSTALLed at all, and haven't seen this problem.

According to DEC (we have this problem also), it is only a problem with
the TU81 (or TU81+) tape drives.  

A DEC person said that the bug was never noticed 
since the people writing/testing the code always
logged in with all priviliges enabled :-o
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Darin Johnson (..sun!sunncal!leadsv!laic!darin)
	All aboard the DOOMED express!