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From: mbrookov@udenva.cair.du.edu (Matthew B. Brookover)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: IBM RT and BSD 4.3
Message-ID: <11553@udenva.cair.du.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 89 20:41:57 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Denver, CO, USA
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Hi, I just started reading this news group so please forgive me if this
stuff has been asked before.

We are in the process of installing 2 IBM RTs (1 6150 and 1 6151) with
the BSD 4.3 OS from IBM.  I have ran into a number of problems that I
am hoping some body can help me with.

1) The floppy disk drive will work fine for a minute or 2 then we get
this message on the console in red letters:  
fd not open! bp=e009e380 b_flags=8108 b_blkno=30 b_count=800
/etc/update, and any process using the floppy get hung in disk waits, and
the load starts to go way up.  What causes this, and can it be fixed?
We had to reboot the machine to get things back to normal.

2) The lisp and pascal compilers that came with the distribution will
not compile.  Is any body successfully using them?

3) does the hc compiler always print out all of those millions of
warnings?  the first time I compiled my own kernel I was very surprised
that it worked.  the pcc compiler has its share of problems to.  pcc
has dumped core and produced code that the assembler could not
assemble.

4) Rup, rusers, and rwall do not work correctly.  rup and rusers is
fine between the 2 RTs, but the output from rstatd on the rt is garbage
when read by rup on a VAX 11/750's running BSD 4.3 Unix from Mt Xinu.
Rup on the RT does net even see the Vax on the net.  Rwall prints the
message 3 times to the users on the specified host, and then says that
the host, (including the host that rwall was ran form) did not get the
message!

5) The X windows version 11 R2 that came with the distribution does not
support our IBM6154 color monitors. Does any body have a driver that
will make X11 work with the IBM6154?

We have the December 1988 release of IBM ACIS 4.3.
Thanks for The help, and if I get anything of use I will sumarize to the net.

					Matthew B. Brookver
					University of Denver
					Computing and Information Resources
					mbrookov@nike.cair.du.edu
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