Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!icus!limbic!gil
From: gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DEQNA timeouts
Summary: DEQNA not supported by DEC soon!
Message-ID: <172@limbic.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 88 02:25:36 GMT
References: <8807271158.AA05174@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.)
Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Islip, NY
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In article <8807271158.AA05174@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU writes:
|>>The I/O user's guide says that this return means something like "a
|>>DEUNA/DEQNA timeout has occurred".  I'm not sure what that means, and
|>>I can't find any further explaination.  What is timing out?  Is my
|>>hardware broken?
|>
|>   In a word, probably!  Your problems with the DEQNA's are most likely
|>due to their not having a required FCO.  Without the FCO, DEQNA's are
|>brain dead, with the ECO they are merely brain damaged.  DEQNA's at
|>revision level D or earlier will need FCO DEQNA-R-001.

Even worse than being brain damaged, DEQNA's won't be supported by VMS
in about a year, according to the VMS 5.0 release notes!  Right now, you
are supposed to enable software error detection on DEQNA's (especially in
LAVC environments) by setting a sysgen parameter.  My suggestion would
be to upgrade to the DELQA as soon as possible rather than bringing the
DEQNA up to FCO.

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