Reverse telnet to a terminal emulator?3170 (7/19/2011 1:02:06 AM) comp.os.vms Is there any such thing as VTxxx-compatible terminal server software that runs on a PC that, instead of actively connecting to a host via telnet, is "passive", it waits until something connects to it? Once a... no334(386)
Health monitoring disk members of HW RAID controllers?966 (7/20/2011 4:56:06 PM) comp.os.vms I have been previously using OpenVMS Volume Shadowing (software RAID mirroring) with OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS/I64. It was possible to see when spindle members of the shadow set were degrading and proactively ... rregier(46)
Anyone seen a LURT on the HP site lately?1160 (7/25/2011 8:10:08 PM) comp.os.vms I went looking for the Alpha systems LURT today. What an adventure. The link which used to point to the appropriate web page is no longer valid. In fact, if you go to the OpenVMS page and click on the link wh... sapienza(402)
SmartArray 5300A question741 (8/12/2011 11:13:03 PM) comp.os.vms We've got a site looking to add some hardware backup to an existing Alpha setup due to some recent downtime when their 10 year old system disk failed with no warning; they're not willing to go to Itanium or get... jordan(1203)
DEC Multia (UDB) issues7344 (8/22/2011 2:21:49 PM) comp.os.vms Generally speaking: Are SCSI failures common? I recently tried to directly boot an OpenVMS Alpha V8.3 installation CD, in an RRD43 and also a Yamaha SCSI CD-R/RW drive later (which was properly detected in the... marcogbNO(1127)
A VS DLT rant1142 (8/22/2011 6:05:11 PM) comp.os.vms I despise VS series DLT drives. A couple years ago we purchased two new in box but old stock VS80s to upgrade both VMScluster and wintel backup (from DAT). All new tapes (since the pile of DLT8000 tapes we ha... jordan(1203)
OpenVMS 32GB restriction?5460 (9/14/2011 6:49:11 AM) comp.os.vms Hi all, I've inherited the job of administrating an AlphaServer DS10 system running a specialist application on OpenVMS 7.3. The DS10 is rack-mounted and attached to it is a DEC/Compaq SBB shelf, also rack-mo... Mike
433AU workstation for sale2849 (1/9/2012 6:41:16 PM) comp.os.vms i have a DEC 433AU workstation for sale. It is located in Connecticut if you want to pick up directly. Has two scsi drives installed. Clean system, ethernet, video card installed. open vms 8.3 installed but n... wfowler5(2)
RX4640 and Fibre channels979 (3/21/2012 2:46:24 PM) comp.os.vms Hi all, I have a Rx4640,which boots OpenVMS V8.4 fine. Presently I try to get a FibreChannel storage (DS2400) working, but up to now no success. The controler looks within OpenVMS like this: Device FGA0:, de... joukj2(173)