Re: New ComOS 3.7.. More news...

Robert Boyle (robert@garden.net)
Wed, 13 Aug 1997 06:37:47 -0400

At 05:37 AM 08/13/97 -0400, Howard Leadmon wrote:
> Well as I was working late, I decided to try and load the new 3.7
>code while most of my clients were sleeping.. :)
>
> I loaded the new code into all of my PM2's and PM3's, and everything
>went just fine with no errors, and it's all up and running fine. Now
>hopefully with any luck the new 56K cards will arrive at the office
>sometime during the day, and then I can just start plugging them in..

I decided to try it too. So far no problems with all of the following being
upgraded as of 5:50AM. I still have about 6 more boxes to upgrade before I
go home for a nap.

Qty Model Upgraded from ComOS
6 PM2eR 3.5.1b17
3 PM2e 3.5.1b17
1 PM2I 3.5.1b17
1 PM2Ie 3.5
3 OR-U 3.5.1b17
6 OR-U 3.5
4 PM3-2PRI 3.5.1b20
4 IRX111 3.5.1b20
3 IRX114 3.5.1b20

Correction.... I was using two Windows machines and two Solaris machines
and the Solaris pminstall locked up upgrading one of the IRX111s. I killed
the process and reinstalled using the Windows box and everything seems to
be fine. I also experienced a strange problem where I could telnet and
connect to one of my IRX114s but nothing would come up on the screen. I
reinstalled 3.7 using one of the NT machines and rebooted. That seemed to
fix the problem. I'm not sure if there is a problem with the IRX installer
code under Solaris 2.5.1, I'm using:

Last login: Wed Aug 13 05:20:41 from sunflower.garden
bash-2.00$ cd pm
bash-2.00$ pminstall -v
./sun4_5.5/pm_install Version 3.5.3
bash-2.00$

On the NT machine, I'm using 3.5.1.4 w/o any problems. I think it may be a
machine specific problem since it only happened on this one machine, but I
thought I should mention it anyway.

As a sidenote, I ordered a STAC card from MSI yesterday. I hope to pick it
up and begin testing later today. I'll post the performance results here.
If anyone else has interest in LE releasing STAC for the PM2 on a limited
number of ports, please let them know @ support@livingston.com with
RFE:STAC in the subject. Howard and I can't be the only ones. :)

-Robert

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