Duncan Brown mentioned in passing:

	[...snip...]
> 
> Handy Tips from Duncan:
> -- Downloading those via Mozilla running under VMS for some reason 
> results in corrupted files.  Enough so that the VMS update won't even 
> unpack, while the PCSI update will unpack but will then fail mid-stream.

I do ALL of my downloads via Mozilla on VMS and have not yet had
any problems... what corruptions are you seeing?

> -- When you are installing a PCSI update and it fails mid-stream, you 
> may regret not having backed up your system disk immediately prior to 
> the update!  (Hint: the Product Install command is then broken, making 
> it exceedingly hard to install the non-corrupted PCSI update once you 
> download it via a PC...)

	[...snip...]

> Duncan

Regards,
Dave
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David B Sneddon - bigpond wrote:

> Duncan Brown mentioned in passing:
> 
>     [...snip...]
> 
>>
>> Handy Tips from Duncan:
>> -- Downloading those via Mozilla running under VMS for some reason 
>> results in corrupted files.  Enough so that the VMS update won't even 
>> unpack, while the PCSI update will unpack but will then fail mid-stream.
> 
> 
> I do ALL of my downloads via Mozilla on VMS and have not yet had
> any problems... what corruptions are you seeing?

I click on a link for a file, it identifies it as a binary file and asks 
me what to do with it, I click on "save to file" and tell it where... 
and then the file later won't unpack right, and/or has the wrong 
checksum, etc.  It's almost as if it's saving it as a text file, or 
otherwise very slightly mucking with it as it is saving it.

3 days and counting and the faster CPU boards are running fine, with no 
crashes.  Looks like the patches did the trick!  How embarassing, I 
should have been taking better care of my system...

Duncan

Duncan,

Good news on the results after applying system patches.

There is a newer firmware for the 4x00 systems V6.1-1 which addresses
some issues with systems with 3 or more cpu boards installed.  You may
want to download the kit for the firmware and apply the update.

Robert

R Boyd wrote:

> Duncan,
> 
> Good news on the results after applying system patches.
> 
> There is a newer firmware for the 4x00 systems V6.1-1 which addresses
> some issues with systems with 3 or more cpu boards installed.  You may
> want to download the kit for the firmware and apply the update.
> 

I thought I had the latest kit, and I certainly wasn't expecting any 
further work on the 4100 series firmware, but it does indeed look like a 
new one came out just recently.  I'll have to download and install that, 
thanks for the heads-up.

Duncan