Melvin R Rees wrote:
>
> Has anyone seen a problem with DAT tapes and applying patches loaded
> from the HP Support Web Site.   I just installed Power Patch 2
> (C.55.02) and was trying to load additional patches from the WEB Site.
> It fails when it trys to create the CSLT tape.  It reports either
> "POWER FAIL (Error 89)" or "Power Up (Error 18)".  It never seems to
> be in the same place but fails within the first minute or two.  If
> anyone has had a similar experience, please let me know how to fix it.
> By the way I did the Power Patch by itself and had no problems.
>
I recently had some struggle with a patch downloaded from the patch
database. When I ran PatchIx it would fall over in trying to create
the CSLT tape. I don't quite emember the error codes, they were not the
ones you mention. These were my problems (solved by the CRC) that you
want to watch out for:

1) PatchIx insists on putting the tape on-line itself. If it finds
   it already on-line (like on my system where tapes get auto-mounted)
   it will quit. To make sure the tape is offline prior to starting
   PatchIx, you can issue the command

     DEVCTRL.MPEXL.TELESUP tape-ldev load=offline

2) It is necessary to have the current group (or at least INSTALL.SYS)
   in the HPPATH. PatchIx will terminate with a nondescript message
   if this is not the case.

Talking about PatchIx, I had some problems with screen and keyboard,
both on a HP70072 and a HP-UX hpterm window. Has anybody had these
too ?

Hope this helps,

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