INFO-VAX Thu, 24 Apr 2008 Volume 2008 : Issue 229 Contents: Re: DS10L bootable IDE/Compact Flash option? Re: Intel Itanium RAS Comparison with X86 RE: Intel Itanium RAS Comparison with X86 Re: Intel Itanium RAS Comparison with X86 Re: Intel Itanium RAS Comparison with X86 Re: Intel Itanium RAS Comparison with X86 Re: MCR clusterwide SHOW TIME Re: why VMS at uni? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:36:37 -0400 From: "David Turner, Island Computers" Subject: Re: DS10L bootable IDE/Compact Flash option? Message-ID: http://www.provantage.com/addonics-aeidedmd4b~7ADDO14P.htm I think we purchased these from distribution but you can buy for about $50 -- David B Turner ============================================= Island Computers US Corp PO Box 86 Tybee GA 31328 Toll Free: 1-877 636 4332 x201, Mobile x251 Email: dturner@islandco.com International: 001 706 993 1787 Fax: 912 786 8505 Web: www.islandco.com ============================================= "Rod" wrote in message news:0c6c7131-5c0b-4db6-8ff3-aa7e8e12b941@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... On Apr 23, 2:12 pm, "David Turner, Island Computers" wrote: > We had some that worked with Alpha DS10 and other alpha systems that had. > The SD cards worked but we had loads of errors on CF I'm not fixated on CF. "Plain CD" goes up to 4GBy. Any specific product model/mfgr detail for the successful SD offerings? ------------------------------ Date: 24 Apr 2008 10:59:07 GMT From: VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Itanium RAS Comparison with X86 Message-ID: <481067fb$0$11610$607ed4bc@cv.net> In article <679r0hF2nr54pU1@mid.individual.net>, billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes: >In article , > koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes: >> In article <6795a6F2npagmU2@mid.individual.net>, billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes: >>> >>> When I am not on active duty I do my military duty in Gettysburg. Perkins >>> is the only place open early enough and with service fast enough for me to >>> have breakfast before I have to report to work. And I am definitely a >>> breakfast person. Of course, a Denny's would be better. :-) Now we >>> can start a new thread on where to eat when yu are in the middle of nowhere. >>> >> >> I don't recall whether it's at the end of Ivanson or Grand, but its >> on the corner of First Street, on your left as you face the tracks. >> And they close at about 6:00, so no late dinners for you flatlanders. >> >> Identifying the town is today's challenge. > >The location sounds like Lovejoy's in Laramie, WY. > >> >> Perkins and Denny's can't touch the quality of the food. > >They are fine for bacon and eggs. ...but no scrapple! :( -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)COM "Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?" http://tmesis.com/drat.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:03:57 +0000 From: "Main, Kerry" Subject: RE: Intel Itanium RAS Comparison with X86 Message-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: JF Mezei [mailto:jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca] > Sent: April 23, 2008 9:16 AM > To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com > Subject: Re: Intel Itanium RAS Comparison with X86 > > someone wrote: > > >>> http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2004/040324a.html > >>> HP awarded $784 Million Services Contract by Department of Veteran > Affairs > > > OK, I stand somewhat corrected. This is a 10 year deal. So there are 6 > more years left to this particular deal. > > However,if someome trying to point at how healthy a product is, can > only > point to 4 year old press releases, it generally means that there > hasn't > been much success since then and that the product is just riding on > existing contracts without much new business. > Point was in previous reference to VA and OpenVMS content. Had nothing to do with current references. Lots of other more current references and video testimonials have been posted in comp.os.vms in recent months. > I wonder if that deal provides for Alpha system upgrades/additions > throughout the life of the contract. Don't know, but typically this is the case with any long term deal. Regards Kerry Main Senior Consultant HP Services Canada Voice: 613-254-8911 Fax: 613-591-4477 kerryDOTmainAThpDOTcom (remove the DOT's and AT) OpenVMS - the secure, multi-site OS that just works. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Apr 2008 10:57:14 -0500 From: koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) Subject: Re: Intel Itanium RAS Comparison with X86 Message-ID: In article <679r0hF2nr54pU1@mid.individual.net>, billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes: > > The location sounds like Lovejoy's in Laramie, WY. I don't recall the name of the resaurant, but order the Boston pecan pie next time your in Laramie. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:23:04 +0200 From: "P. Sture" Subject: Re: Intel Itanium RAS Comparison with X86 Message-ID: In article <6794vnF2npagmU1@mid.individual.net>, billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote: > It's "das Boot", not "das boat". So, anyone remember the movie of the > same name? :-) Yes, and if you understand it, the German version of "Das Boot" is better than the English one. -- Paul Sture Sue's OpenVMS bookmarks: http://eisner.encompasserve.org/~sture/ovms-bookmarks.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:13:39 +0200 From: Sebastian Hanigk Subject: Re: Intel Itanium RAS Comparison with X86 Message-ID: "P. Sture" writes: > Yes, and if you understand it, the German version of "Das Boot" is > better than the English one. Which -- with some notable exceptions (X-Files, anyone?) -- ties quite nicely into the notion that consuming original material is usually the better choice :-) Sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:41:25 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bart.Zorn@gmail.com" Subject: Re: MCR clusterwide SHOW TIME Message-ID: <71b6cb65-8cd2-4c7f-91bd-503b1de67554@34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> Hmm... I did not know that. I did notice that the times are almost identical but slightly increasing, but that is what I would expect in a cluster with DTSS running properly. Regards, Bart On Apr 23, 4:39 pm, John Reagan wrote: > Bart.Z...@gmail.com wrote: > > And how about: > > > $ SHOW SYSTEM/CLUSTER/NOPROCESS > > Actually that one is interesting. The time displayed is not the time on > the remote machine but just the local time on the machine doing the > display. Ever notice that the times are all almost identical but > slightly increasing? > > I don't remember if something was going to be changed to get the remote > system's time and display it. > > -- > John Reagan > OpenVMS Pascal/Macro-32/COBOL Project Leader > Hewlett-Packard Company ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:28:46 -0700 (PDT) From: etmsreec@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: why VMS at uni? Message-ID: <0382b240-641b-47ea-8737-4beb148a5cb6@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> On 21 Apr, 14:04, Arne Vajh=F8j wrote: > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > because > > > =A0 =A0"It appears that the Machine Room has suffered a major > > =A0 =A0power failure. As a result Bluecrystal is currently unavailable. > > > =A0 =A0We are working on the problem and hope to have the system back > > =A0 =A0up and running by Monday. > > > =A0 =A0Sorry for the inconvenience." > > > from Sunday's sysadmin's notification about > > our supercomp (http://www.acrc.bris.ac.uk/acrc/hpc.htm). > > It is still down on Mon morning. > > > We could certainly do with some RAS (or RASS)... > > > But to be honest, I wonder how much administrator skills have to > > do with RAS, be it a VMS or other cluster. > > The two most important factors are: > - the willingness to pay for redundancy > - the syadmins ability to implement it correctly > > I doubt that many super computers has a standby system .... > > Arne- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - And I thought sys admins normally had no choice in redundancy - they got it because management said they had to go... :os ------------------------------ End of INFO-VAX 2008.229 ************************