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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Sys V/AT 2.4
Message-ID: <1486@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 00:21:54 GMT
References: <645@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Organization: Slugland, USA
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In article <645@wa3wbu.UUCP>, john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
>    I just received in the mail the announcement of availability for
> Sys V/AT 2.4. It looks very nice. Has anyone perhaps received this
> update and can comment on it ?  Im running 2.3U with the HoneyDanber
> uucp and Everex tape drive and it works *VERY* solid.  I would hope
> that 2.4 works equally as well but would like to hear from someone
> running it.

I have installed 2.4 and it works.  That's the good news.
I was running HoneyDanber uucp and still am -- all ok.
I installed it to get the Everex support.  First complaint, no
documentation on configuring the Everex controller, no documentation
on what all the nodes are for the Everex tape, no documentation on
the strm program.

The final, and most important, problem is whenever I do tape I/O anything
with a lower priority interrupt (printer, floppy), at best, stops for a
while.  Most of the time either the tape or the printer/floppy hangs
forever and a reboot is necessary.

I cannot say for sure that I have everything installed correctly as I have
no documentation on how to do it but I am pretty good at guessing.
I have sent Microport a copy of my 'master' file and comments about the
problems.  I am waiting for an answer.

-- 
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
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