No problem with leaving the HPIB card in.

If you boot on 6.5 and the card and associated peripherals are configured,
you will see the appropriate LLIO    error and "higher component
configuration failure" messages, before otherwise successfully booting.

If the card and associated peripherals are deleted from sysgen i/o
configuration, the system boots up without any error messages - as if the
card did not exist.

So, for those that like to switch among different o/s's, without worrying
about performing associated physical hardware removals and additions, you
can rest easy - 6.5 will not present a problem for you.


At 09:47 AM 2001-02-15 -0600, Tom Hula wrote:
>There was a string a while back where someone asked if it would be a problem
>if their HP-IB card was still in the computer when the computer was upgraded
>to 6.5. The responses didn't seem (to me) to quite answer the question.
>So.......
>
>I have a 927LX with an HP-IB card in it. It is not configured on the system
>at all. When it boots up, as far as the operating system is concerned, there
>is no HP-IB card. My system printers are using serial ports now instead of
>the HP-IB. So, it is there, but not being used and there is no need to
>replace it with anything else.
>
>That being said, would there be any problem upgrading to 6.5 with that HP-IB
>card still sitting in the computer?   TIA
>
>         Tom Hula
>         Victor S. Barnes Company
>
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