Aspen systems 275xs

I have VMS V6.2 running on an aspen alpine 275XS, but have not
tried updating to VMS 7.2.  In my system, I have PROM version
X4.4-4165 Oct 3 1995 9:45:57; an SMC EtherPower 10/100 Fast
Ethernet PCI adapter; and a ZLXp PCI Graphics board.  I am not
sure about the SCSI.

I would be interested in hearing of your experience if you try
it with V7.2.

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I've got exactly the same configuration (Durango II) and also have had good
luck installing V7.2 on it.  However, I cannot say the same for V7.1 as the
CD boot process blows up shortly after the "OpenVMS Alpha Version V7.1"
message with some barf about device not in the config tables (I'm not at the
office at the moment).  I seem to recall that when we got this box, there
was a cover letter with a diskette containing a driver that was to be
installed in SYS$LOADABLE_IMAGES to fix this very problem.  It seems that
V7.2 has the appropriate support built in.  Something about the
SYS$PKWDRIVER.EXE "IntraServer" it seems to me.  Anyways, I've tried the
"dual device boot" technique of

boot -fl 0,80000 dka600,dva0

in the hope that the V7.1 CD would prompt for the SYS$PKWDRIVER.EXE from the
floppy (which it does) but bugchecks shortly thereafter.

If anybody knows the magic spell to get V7.1 loaded on this configuration,
I'd appreciate it.

Curtis

A rather interesting "feature" of this box is that is tends to lock up
completely when doing large amounts of I/O.  And I mean COMPLETELY - no
amount of CTRL/C or CTRL/Y or even CTRL/P for that matter will save it,
doesn't even bugcheck.  The only fix is a hard reset.  I know that this is
not OpenVMS doing this but likely the 3rd party SCSI driver.  Anybody else
see this behavior?

Larry D Bohan, Jr <LBo @dbc.spam_less..com> wrote in message

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:58:18 -0700, "mike menard"

well, I have a Durango 500 II, (circ 1997) that
works fine w/ v7.2

the most important part is obviously
a supported disk controller.

if you're not going to do X, the graphics card would
be less a concern also.

                        Aspen Systems Durango Workstation

SRM Console X4.7-393            VMS PALcode V1.19-9, OSF PALcode
V1.21-8
DECchip (tm) 21164A-2
DECchip (tm) 21172 CIA ASIC Pass 3

MEMORY
256 Meg of system memory

PCI Bus
     Bus 00  Slot 05: DECchip 21140 Network Controller
                                   ewa0.0.0.5.0
00-00-F8-03-CE-C4  
     Bus 00  Slot 08: Intel 82378IB PCI to ISA Bridge
     Bus 00  Slot 09: NCR 53C810 Scsi Controller
             pka0.7.0.9.0          SCSI Bus ID 7      
            dka100.1.0.9.0         RZ29L-AA            
            dka200.2.0.9.0         RZ1CB-CS            
            dka500.5.0.9.0         TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-64
            dka600.6.0.9.0         TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-64
           mka400.4.0.9.0         TLZ06              
ISA
Slot    Device  Name  Type         Enabled  BaseAddr  IRQ  DMA
0
        0       MOUSE      Embedded        Yes     60      12
        1       KBD            Embedded        Yes     60      1
        2       COM1         Embedded         Yes     3f8     4
        3       COM2         Embedded         Yes     2f8     3
        4       LPT1          Embedded          Yes     3bc     7
        5       FLOPPY      Embedded         Yes     3f0     6       2