Gehan Gehale wrote: > Hello, > I called our companies hp contract rep about getting a fos tape for > our system on monday. They said they would send that to us and we > would have it on friday. > > Today someone called from hp and said they are no longer shipping > mpe 6.0 FOS. They are only supporting upgrades and he could ship me > 6.5 if I wanted to upgrade. This sounds a bit strange (unless procedures have changed). I think if you were on 6.5 already and asked for a reshipment of 6.5 material, they would do that for you. > I can't belive how much this sucks. It really puts a wrench in the works... As much as I can emphatize with your disappointment, you do realize that MPE 6.0 has been HP unsupported for well over 2 and half years now ? > I was wondering, what's the legality of someone copying me a 6.0 FOS > tape and sending it to me? IANAL, and to comment on legality aspects could be a very career limiting move (esp. if you see my email domain ..) > I have the 6.0 prod/subsys and the power > patch 2 tape. But for some reason I'm missing my FOS tape... And HP > won't send me a copy... > > I'm still working on re-installing our HFS dir and getting java and a > few other things running. If I can't get someone to send me the fos > tape, how can I devise a workaround? Can I take the 6.5 version tape > and install the HFS from that? Are there a lot of changes between 6.0 > and 6.5 that could effect that? What about 5.5 I'm pretty sure I have > a 5.5 fos tape in my library.. Sorry that I am curious, but what exactly is the reason that you cannot update your system to MPE 6.5 ? > > Any suggestions would be much appricated, How about asking your local HP Response Center (maybe for time & materials cost) to make you a copy ? I would assume that tyipcal HP RC support groups have not re-cycled the 6.0 tapes yet, and could produce a copy for you. HTH, Goetz -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet? * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *