Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!munnari!bruce!mark
From: mark@bruce.oz (Mark Goodwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: SR9.7 on a DN580-T with a floating point accelerator
Keywords: FPA SR9.7 DN580-T Apollo Turbo
Message-ID: <515@bruce.oz>
Date: 30 Aug 88 11:57:17 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, Monash Uni, Australia
Lines: 25

Installing SR9.7 on our DN580-TURBO bombed out with a message indicating
the CPU board needs an ECO (Engineering Change Order). According to our
local Apollo reps (who kindly removed the FPA and all was fine) we need
to send our CPU board to Scotland - has anyone suffered similar problems?

The Apollo rep reckons (that's Australian for "says") it is possible to
run with the FPA installed under SR9.7, but it's risky and may cause
disk crashes. So I'd like to know a few things before we send off our CPU.

a) Can I bring up SR9.7 with the FPA installed? Will it work if I load the
FPA ucode manually from the Mnemonic Debugger before booting Aegis?

b) Has this problem been fixed in SR10, or will we still need the ECO?

c) Is the Apollo software cartridge labelled "FPX-FIX" a software solution?

Any info very much appreciated ...

--------------
Mark Goodwin               |ACSnet:    mark@bruce.oz
CSO, Dept. Computer Science|  UUCP:    seismo!munnari!bruce.oz!mark
Monash University, Clayton |  ARPA:    mark%bruce.oz@seismo.css.gov
AUSTRALIA 3168.

Please note: our machine has recently changed from moncsbruce to bruce.