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Aucbvax.6018 fa.info-vax utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Mon Feb 1 10:46:14 1982 RDC and UNIX >From decvax!duke!unc!lynn@Berkeley Mon Feb 1 10:42:31 1982

RDC should be able to diagnose ALL of your DEC hardware, subject to the following restrictions.

1. You have the full set of diagnostics on floppies. (These are delivered with your VAX, and run under their own stand-alone supervisor.)

2. You tell the person at RDC that he will have to use the stand-alone floppies (or cassettes, I guess, for a 750).

3. You have appropriate scratch media for all of your peripherals.

It is a BIG help to both RDC and yourself if you can maintain a diagnostic disk pack for a DEC hard disk. (DEC does not have to give service contracts for any system without a DEC hard disk, but whether they actually do or not is at the discretion of the local field service manager.) A diagnostic disk has a VMS file system on it with all of the diagnostics in the [SYSMAINT] directory. Your system can be diagnosed MUCH faster in many cases if this is available, even though it contains no programs not also available on floppies or cassettes. The diagnostic supervisor can be booted directly off that disk whether the rest of VMS is there or not, and the disk can be write-locked while doing it. (Try booting from device SB0 or SM0 from your local console; it will boot the diagnostic supervisor from a massbus disk (SB0) or RK07 (SM0) if the supervisor is on the disk.) Lynn F. TenEyck duke!unc!lynn (uucp only) (919) 966-5045

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