The company I worked for back in 1996/8 upgraded from a Series 70 to a
918LX. At the same time we were moving to new premises. The 70 stayed in the
old building and I accompanied the 918LX to the new building once our
migration plan had been proven (we ran it three times). While waiting for
the switchover to be completed I had to look as if I was busy. While tidying
up the manuals and other bits that came with the box I found an HP-UX SLT.
Called an engineer I knew at HP and asked about it. Was told that if the
918LX was booted up with it then I'd be able to play with a very-slow 9000
running HP-UX. So I did a full backup and tried it. Spent a week seeing what
it could do and then turned it back into a 3000 and played with Posix
instead. I had been missing my MPE!!
regards,
Robert W.Mills
-----Original Message-----
From: John Clogg [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 February 2002 19:36
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Linux and HP3000 model 937RX
As I understand it, MPE won't run on a 9000, simply because it has code in
it to prevent that. It looks at the identifying info in nonvolatile memory
and chokes. I doubt that Linux would be sabotaged in that way. I have a
friend (who shall forever remain nameless) who successfully loaded HPUX on a
3000.
-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne R. Boyer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 10:44 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Linux and HP3000 model 937RX
In a message dated 2/21/02 10:09:00 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
> the mfio card or the 'personality' firmware
>
Depending upon how the MFIO card software works, it may not matter. This
should work like any other HPPB interface. I'm told that MPE/iX is 'dumb'
in
that it cannot handle more than one interface on a single card while HPUX
can
deal with this. This is why the SE-SCSI interface has that 'other'
connector
on it. somehow HP made MPE/iX work with HP-3000 specific interfaces and
HPUX
work with their specific interfaces. They all plug into the same backplane
though.
PARISC Linux must deal with the HP-9000 firmware in some maner. If they can
do that then the changes to handle the HP-3000 firmware shouldn't be major.
The future of MPE without HP requires knowledge of this firmware data. I'm
curious to know what this Linux group is doing and I have signed myself up
with their list server.
Wayne
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