Here's an interesting problem for you-all:

We have a remote system that is supposed to be a mirror of 
our host system (both are 918's), so after we updated the 
host machine to PP4, we cut an SLT and I sent my associate 
to Texas to update the remote system.  After shutting down 
the remote system, booting from the alternate (DDS) boot 
device, and entering UPDATE at the ISL> prompt, the system 
repsonds as normal with the current date and time and 
dutifully asks if they are correct or not.  My associate, 
also very dutiful, notes that the date and time are not 
correct and changes them.  At this point the boot hangs, 
with no tape activity.  A complete system power down, 
followed by another UPDATE and change in date/time, 
produced the same results.  A third complete system power 
down and another UPDATE (this time with no date/time 
change) worked okay.

So why would the system hang when the date and time are 
changed?  Has anybody ever seen anything like this?

Jim Phillips                            Manager of Information Systems
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