On Mon, 27 Jan 1997 17:50:14 +0300, Frederick W Metcalf
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>Hi,
>I felt the need to describe my experience. On Saturday I did a very
>successful upgrade to a 959/400 here in Cape Town:
>1. My tapes all verified OK before I started and I had no problems
>during the update process. I put my tapes near the system for at least
>one hour before I used them as the computer room temperature was at 16
>Deg C.

Well, I tried to do a VSTORE on the FOS and SUBSYS tapes, but the upgrade
manual fails to mention that you need ;LOCAL because half of the files
don't exist on the MPE/iX 4.0 system.  So VSTORE wouldn't verify any file
on the tape that wasn't also on disk!?!?

>2. The system was on 5.0, so I did not even check what firmware version
>was on the (HPC1504B) SCSI DDS drive. Was your firmware on Rev 10.7?

Sorry, we don't have SCSI-DDS, we have HPIB-DDS.

>3. I used the Second Edition manual version (E1096) that I received with
>PowerPatch 1 and ':PURGEGROUP [log in to unmask] was the only surprise I can
>recall.

Yes, I have E0796, and the other errors are mostly mis-spellings (like
LISTTFILE instead of LISTFILE).

>4. I plan to provide the customer with patch MPEJX99A to get rid of the
>harmless console message: 'The last name component of the pathname does
>not exist in the directory / HP Directory message 1'

When it's available on tape, I'll do the same.

>5. This was the second time I used the new manual. I had some trouble
>adjusting to the new format during my first update, but now I feel this
>new format works for me.

The new manual was confusing at first, but actually worked better the
longer I used it.

>I hope others have a better time than you.
>My condolences!
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Thanks, and I hope so too.

Jim Phillips                            Manager of Information Systems
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