I just hit a major snag in 6.0 Power Patch 2 this past weekend during
testing that effects token ring cards.  The snag is that the inbound buffer
pool fills up.  Once that happens the client thinks you disconnected and
reports an error.

Nasty problem for us since our primary customer uses token ring to talk to
us!  We're back on pp1 for now.  The 16 hour update from hell.

I've had great success on pp1 with only one add on patch, ftpfdp3.  What was
I thinking when I decided to update!  You don't mess with success.

Carl McNamee
Systems Administrator
Billing Concepts
(210) 949-7282



-----Original Message-----
From: Donna Garverick [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 11:34 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] 6.0 update


Paul H Christidis wrote:

> 1.  Bad firmware in their DDS drives caused their update to halt.

this is probably the only thing we'll hit -- since this is what we ran into
during the massive 5.5 update.  we actually had one tape drive that was so
new,
hp temporarily replaced it with an old drive just long enough to do the
update.  try explaining *that* to hp (ha).    - d

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