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VAXSHAD04_060 VAX V6.0 VOLUME SHADOWING ECO Summary

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    Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1995, 1996. All rights reserved.
    
         *************************  CAUTION!!  *************************
         *                                                             *
         *  Please *READ* the installation instructions in the release *
         *  notes/cover letter for this ECO kit *BEFORE* you install   *
         *  it on your system.  System crashes may occur if this ECO   *
         *  kit is not installed on *every* OpenVMS VAX node and the   *
         *  OpenVMS Alpha (ALPSHAD) version of this kit is not         *
         *  installed on *every* OpenVMS Alpha in a mixed architecture *
         *  cluster before the cluster is rebooted.                    *
         *                                                             *
         *  Installation of this kit may also change the configuration *
         *  performance for existing SCSI shadow sets.                 *
         *                                                             *
         ***************************************************************
    
    PRODUCT:     Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS  (Phase II)
    
                 NOTE:  The problems fixed in this ECO Kit also affect the
                        following products:
    
                             VAXcluster Software for OpenVMS VAX
                             DEC TCP/IP Services for VMS (UCX)
    
    OP/SYS:      OpenVMS VAX
    
    COMPONENTS:  System, Bugcheck, Backup,
                 Mount, Dismount, MSCP, TMSCP, MTAAACP,
                 I/O Routines, Audit Server,
                 Security, System Primitives,
                 Adaptive Pool Management (APM),
                 Operator Communication Manager (OPCOM),
                 User Environmental Test Package (UETP)
    
    SOURCE:      Digital Equipment Corporation
    
    ECO INFORMATION:
    
         ECO Kit Name:  VAXSHAD04_060
         ECO Kits Superseded by and Included in this ECO Kit:
    
              VAXSHAD03_060
              VAXSHAD07_061   (For OpenVMS VAX V6.0 ONLY)
              VAXSHAD06_061
              VAXSHAD05_061
              VAXSHAD04_061
              VAXSHAD03_061
              VAXSHAD01_061   (CSCPAT_1160)
              VAXSHAD02_060   (CSCPAT_1116)
              VAXSHAD01_060   (CSCPAT_1116)
              VAXDRIV02_060   (CSCPAT_1136)
              VAXSYS14_061    (For OpenVMS VAX V6.0 ONLY)
              VAXSYS12_061
              VAXSYS07_061
              VAXSYS01_061    (CSCPAT_1113)
              VAXSYS04_060    (CSCPAT_1113)
              VAXSYS03_060    (CSCPAT_1113, CSCPAT_1124)
              VAXSYS01_060    (CSCPAT_1113)
    
         ECO Kit Approximate Size:  2790 Blocks
         Kit Applies To:  OpenVMS VAX V6.0
         System Reboot Necessary:  Yes
    
    
    CAUTION:
    
    Before Installing this Kit, Read the Following Cautions:
    
         After installation of this kit, the following issues may occur:
    
          1)  ISSUE:  When a node reboots into the cluster there may not
                      be an OPCOM message that reports the node is joining
                      the cluster.  Absent messages occur on a random
                      basis.
    
              WORKAROUND:  In order to verify the node has entered the
                           cluster, after the node has fully rebooted, the
                           user should enter the command:
    
                                $ SHOW CLUSTER
    
                           to verify the node is a valid member of the
                           VAXcluster.
    
          2) ISSUE FROM THE CSC:  An INVEXCEPTN in SNDRIVER may be seen if
                                  DECnet/SNA V2.1 is used in conjunction
                                  with the IO_ROUTINES from the VAXSHAD
                                  ECO kit.  SNAVMS_E04021 (CSCPAT_5041) will
                                  fix this problem by replacing the
                                  incompatible SNDRIVER in DECnet/SNA V2.1
    
                                  NOTE: SNAVMS_E04021 applies to
                                        DECnet/SNA V2.1 only.
    
         These issues are being addressed and will be corrected in a
         future version of OpenVMS VAX.
    
    
    ECO KIT SUMMARY:
    
    An ECO kit exists for Volume Shadowing on OpenVMS VAX V6.0.  This kit
    addresses the following problems:
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD04_060 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.0:
    
      o  The VAXSHAD03_060 remedial kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.0 should
         have superseded the VAXSYS14_061 remedial kit for OpenVMS
         VAX V6.0.  This kit supersedes and includes fixes from
         VAXSYS14_061.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD03_060 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.0:
    
      o  After applying the VAXSHAD07_061 kit to the system disk, systems
         booting from that disk would no longer boot and would crash in
         SYSINIT with a DELCONPFN bugcheck.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD07_061 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.0:
    
      o  In the VAXSHAD05 and VAXSHAD06 kits two new fields were added
         to the IRP data structure for shadow write logging information.
         This new IRP definition size conflicts with the IRP sizes of
         other images on the system that are not part of the SHADOW kits.
         This conflict may cause a variety of errors, including fatal
         bugchecks.  This fix changes the IRP definitions back to the SBB
         versions and adds some special definitions to the SHDRIVER for
         the new IRP fields.
    
      o  Fatal bugchecks from data structure corruption may occur due
         to the addition of the value 10 HEX to the corrupted field.
         Crashes are of various types and include node and cluster
         crashes, crashes due to invalid UCB addresses, invalid VCB
         addresses, invalid member IDs, and invalid number of devices.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD06_061 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.0.
    
      o  When trying to access a DFS disk, the following error may be
         seen:
    
            -SYSTEM-F-FILALRACC, file already accessed on channel
    
         The disk can be accessed immediately after reboot; however,
         after a period of time of not accessing the disk, a simple
         directory command will return this error.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD05_061 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.0:
    
      o  After a node crashes, on reboot it cannot mount a Host Based
         Volume Shadowing virtual unit.  The error message usually
         returned is "volume not software enabled"; however, "Medium
         Offline" may also be seen.  A SHOW DEVICE will show that the
         the Shadowset is in 0% merge but SNA will show that a minimerge
         is pending.
    
      o  A double deallocation crash may occur as the result of MOUNT not
         properly initializing the Mounted Volume List (MTL) pointer.  This
         pointer had a stale value as a result of two calls to SYS$VMOUNT
         from a single program.  The stale pointer will only cause a problem
         if the system is unable to allocate space for defining the logical
         name.
    
         NOTE:  Since cells are initialized at image activation, this
                problem should not occur as a result of DCL commands.
    
      o  Tape devices with stacker/loaders, such as the TF857, may take
         up to 6 minutes to rewind/unload/load the next tape.  In
         VAXSHAD01_061, a change was made to the behavior of MOUNT to take
         this delay into account.   However, a side effect of that change
         was that non-stacker drives may also wait 6 minutes before failing.
         This problem has been addressed by this VAXSHAD kit.
    
      o  System crashes with an INVEXCEPTN during a SHDRIVER COPY_DATA_REPAIR
         copy operation.
    
      o  If the value of the ALLOCLASS SYSGEN parameter is not set and the
         user tries to use shadowing, a shadow volume can be created but
         members can not be added to the shadow set.  No error messages are
         received up until a second member is added.  On the MOUNT command,
         the customer will receive the error messages:
    
            $   mount   /system    dsa500    /shadow=dkb400    alphavms015
            %MOUNT-I-SHDWMEMFAIL,  DKB400 failed as a member of the shadow set
            -SYSTEM-F-INCSHAMEM, incompatible shadow set member
    
         "Incompatible" is an inappropriate statement of the problem.  A
         more accurate message would be "missing allocation class," or
         "incorrect allocation class."
    
      o  If a shadow set member is dismounted at the same time from multiple
         nodes within a cluster, I/O to a shadow set may become stalled.
    
      o  Mount will not add shadow set members unless they are either
         MSCP or SCSI.
    
      o  Shadow set member expulsion is currently based on the time it takes
         a fork & wait and a PACKACK to complete rather than the actual time
         transpired.  On some devices, particularly SCSI, where a PACKACK
         can take approximately one minute, the timeout was much too long.
         Using the default value of 20 (seconds) for SHADOW_MBR_TMO would
         actually mean that it would take 20 minutes to expel from a SCSI
         shadow set a member experiencing errors.
    
      o  SHDRIVER loss of synchronization may result in a crash where
         SHADDETINCON is triggered by the check at the end of
         MATCH_MASTER_SCB.  In this consistency check, the
         SHAD$W_DEVSTS_PASSIVE_MV_CNTR is verified to be zero and is not.
         Another symptom is that the virtual unit UCB$W_RWAITCNT is
         zero.  Also shadow set member counts of zero may be seen.
    
      o  Crashes may occur in EXPEL_PACKACK_ANY with connections broken to
         all members and IRP$L_SHD_LOCK_FR5 = 1 (packack retries exhausted).
    
      o  All members of a shadow set become inaccessible at the same time and
         remain inaccessible for a period of time greater than "shadow
         member timeout" (SHADOW_MBR_TMO  or  SHADOW_SYS_TMO) seconds but
         less than MVTIMEOUT seconds.  All members subsequently become
         accessible within seconds of each other but not at exactly the same
         time.  This results in all but one member being expelled from the
         shadow set.
    
         This often occurs when changing HSJ microcode and all members are
         connected to the same HSJ.  When brought back online, polling will
         cause the devices to be found seconds apart which will result in
         all but one member being expelled.
    
      o  All members of the set must be checked to see if they meet the
         criteria of being MSCP.  The original design did not allow
         for having no index zero member.
    
      o  When the mounting of full copy targets exceeds the SHADOW_MAX_COPY
         threads for a given node, other nodes with the shadow set mounted
         do not pick up the copy work.
    
      o  In a cluster, using $PROCESS_SCAN explicitly or implicitly with the
         DCL SHOW USER command sometimes causes a system crash due to an
         ACCVIO in kernel mode or an IVSSRVRQST bugcheck.
    
      o  When a node with a SCSI bus boots, it resets the SCSI bus.  In a
         multi-host SCSI cluster, this can cause the other node to
         experience I/O failures.  Normally, this results in a brief mount
         verification.  The I/O is retried, succeeds, and there is
         no serious consequence.  However, if the other node is in the
         process of booting and the system disk is a shadow set, the
         system will crash.
    
      o  PGFIPLHI bugcheck in the SHADOW_SERVER process at the REMQUE
         in K_GET_COPYSHAD_IRP.  On OpenVMS VAX, the PC is A0E and the
         VA is 274.
    
      o  A page setup module which draws a frame and company logo on each
         page of output is used on a queue pointing to an LN03.  This page
         setup module works on OpenVMS Version VAX 5.5-2 and prior versions.
         However, with VAXQMAN8_U2055 (CSCPAT_1165) or OpenVMS VAX Version
         6.1 installed, this page setup module causes the printer to
         continually spew out paper with only the output from the page setup
         module.  This continues until the entry is deleted from the queue.
    
      o  Due to an inadequate synchronization mechanism, the MONITOR DISK
         command can go into an infinite loop on multi-processing machines.
    
      o  If a multi-programming application uses a non-homogenous access
         pattern to a file which is resident in Virtual I/O cache, there is
         a possibility that the size returned in the I/O status block from a
         READ operation will be truncated.
    
      o  If a clustered application uses of a large number of concurrent
         processes to perform file operations consisting of an OPEN, WRITE,
         and CLOSE sequence repetitively on the same data file, data
         corruption may occur.
    
      o  In a multi-programming environment where a significant amount of
         NEW data from a file is being loaded into the cache concurrently by
         multiple processes, the system may HANG.
    
      o  If a user attempts to mount a disk that is 100% full on OpenVMS VAX
         V6.* and the disk was originally initialized with a version of
         OpenVMS VAX prior to V6.0, paged pool can be corrupted leading to
         system crashes.  If the disk is filled AFTER it has been mounted
         under V6.*, there will not be any problem.
    
      o  The class driver will sometimes attempt to send an MSCP command
         packet on the wrong connection.  This fix detects this mismatch and
         corrects it.
    
      o  Due to invalid allocation counts, processes hang in RWNPG state
         waiting for a request for non-paged pool (NPP) so large that it
         cannot be satisfied.
    
      o  The system crashes with the current process executing a $CHKPRO
         system service call.
    
      o  A $AUDIT_EVENT system crash my occur in SECURITY.EXE due to corrupt
         scan structure storage.
    
      o  When a rights list is passed into $CHKPRO (CHP$_RIGHTS), it is
         copied into the ARB within the NSA$A_SCRATCH area.  This area
         will hold a maximum of eight rights.  The code that handles this
         copy operation will split any larger rights list into the first
         eight, which are copied into the local rights area, and the
         remainder, which a descriptor is created and its address is added
         as extended process rights.
    
         The code involved in copying the first eight rights was looping
         incorrectly and copying rights to random locations within the
         NSA$A_SCRATCH area usually resulting in a SSRVEXCEPT crash.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD04_061 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.0:
    
      o  When booting two or more systems simultaneously from shadowed
         system disks, the systems may appear to hang.  Crashing the
         systems and examining the crash dumps indicates that shadowing
         driver blocking AST routines have not run.
    
      o  In a two node VAXcluster configuration, containing a DSSI system
         shadow set and a quorum disk, if one node exits the cluster and
         reboots, the node will hang on boot while attempting to form the
         system disk shadow set virtual unit.
    
      o  When multiple virtual unit mount commands are issued that will
         result in copy operations, only the node from which the commands
         are issued will attempt to perform the copy operations.  Only
         the SHADOWMAXCOPY number of copies will run simultaneously.
         This means that copy operations might take longer than expected
         and copies will not be started for copy members that are
         added to shadow sets.
    
      o  On OpenVMS VAX V6.0 systems, disks could not be mounted after
         installation of VAXSHAD03_061.
    
         This problem is fixed in OpenVMS VAX V6.1
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD03_061 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.0:
    
      o  A double-deallocation crash may occur as the result of MOUNT not
         properly initializing the MTL pointer.  This pointer had a stale
         value as a result of 2 calls to SYS$VMOUNT from a single program.
         The problem will not happen as a result of DCL commands, as the
         cells are initialized at image activation.  The stale pointer
         will only cause a problem if the system is unable to allocate
         space for defining the logical name.
    
      o  OPCOM message was being output even though /NOASSIST was
         specified in the MOUNT command.  This caused problems for UETP.
    
      o  System crash in SECURITY.EXE.
    
      o  A process is in RWPAG while auditing an event.
    
      o  When the current process executes a $CHKPRO system service call,
         the system will crash.
    
      o  Processes hang in RWNPG state (Call to $CRMPSC) waiting for a
         request for NPP so large that it cannot be satisfied.
    
      o  DISMOUNT/OVERRIDE=CHECKS against the SYSTEM disk is allowed.
         Once this command is issued nothing else can be done.
         Installation of this kit will only allow this command to
         be issued on non-system disks.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD01_061 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.0:
    
      o  In Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS Alpha V6.1, minimerge
         functionality across mixed architecture VMSclusters was
         disabled.  In order to reestablish the minimerge functionality,
         install this kit across any VMScluster that contains an OpenVMS
         Alpha V6.1 node.
    
      o  Mounting an RZ28B disk device with an RZ28 in the same
         shadow set is not allowed and will display the following error:
    
         %MOUNT-I-SHDWMEMFAIL, $1$DUA0 failed as a member of the shadow set
         -SYSTEM-F-INCSHAMEM, incompatible shadow set member
    
         This behavior is seen when RZ28/RZ28B shadow set members are
         connected with a local SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)
         controller.
    
         With this kit, RZ28 and RZ28B devices can be combined in a
         shadow set if they are connected to like controllers.
    
         NOTE:  If this kit is installed across a VMScluster, SCSI
                shadow sets configured across different controller
                types are not supported and will no longer work.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD02_060 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.0:
    
      o  After installation of CSCPAT_1116 V1.0 (VAXSHAD01_060), the
         system may crash with a SHADDETINCON bugcheck at SHDRIVER+F0B4.
         The bugcheck occurs when a disk is removed from a mounted shadow
         set.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD01_060 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.0:
    
      o  In a situation in which more than one member of a three-member
         shadow set go into error recovery at the same time and
         cannot be brought back into the shadow set (due to loss of
         connectivity, media offline, write-locked device, etc.),
         SHDRIVER expels one of the members and crashes with a
         SHADDETINCON bugcheck because it cannot update the Storage
         Control Block (SCB) on the remaining members.  This can cause
         many cluster nodes to crash at the same time.
    
      o  When all three members of a three-member shadow set are
         write-locked, a bugcheck will occur due to the destruction
         of Register 4 upon execution of a jump to sub-routine command
         that overwrites the value in the register.
    
      o  The SHADOW_MAX_COPY SYSGEN parameter is used to set how many
         merge/copy threads may be started at the same time on a node.
         Systems are allowing more than SHADOW_MAX_COPY number of
         threads to run concurrently.
    
      o  Various SHDRIVER system disk member timer issues and
         Register 2/Register 5 Corruption:
    
        -  The SHSB$MATCH_MASTER_SCB routine uses SHSB$PAUSE
           incorrectly.  This improper usage causes the value
           in Register 2 to be destroyed when the time delay
           is invoked, so the resulting value in Register 2
           is indeterminate.
    
        -  The SHSB$MATCH_MASTER_SCB routine uses SH$TIME_DELAY
           incorrectly.  This improper usage causes an incorrect
           value to be placed in Register 5, which requires a
           UCB value.
    
        -  The SH$ABORT_VP routine uses SH$TIME_DELAY incorrectly.
           This improper usage causes the value in Register 2 to be
           destroyed when the time delay is invoked, so the resulting
           value in Register 2 is indeterminate.
    
        -  In some customer configurations, the benefit of
           re-assembling a multiple-member system disk shadow
           set is lost.   This occurs because the fixed amount
           of time expires and not all of the former members
           are available.
    
        -  Member time out for system disks and other disks is
           not differentiated.
    
        -  The hardcoded wait of FF seconds to connect to all
           members of an existing system disk is not a controllable
           variable.
    
      o  SHDRIVER MVTIMEOUT and R5 Corruption errors:
    
         -  When one member of a multiple-member shadow set is
            spontaneously removed from the shadow set due to a
            fatal error condition, some VAXcluster nodes will
            hang the virtual unit until the MVTIMEOUT time expires.
    
         -  After a call to SHSB$PAUSE, the wait loop at 103$ in
            SHSB$VALIDATE_SHADOW_SET does not correctly restore
            the contents of R5 to be the virtual unit.
    
      o  Post-processing is not performed correctly on all clones which
         causes allocation of new, unnecessary Write Log Entries.  The
         Write Log INUSE bit is never cleared and the write log table
         has to be expanded.  Once the table expands to MAX, Write
         Logging is disabled.  When Write Logging is turned back on,
         the cycle begins again.  Eventually, all  the entries in the
         controller are exhausted, which forces  Write Log Exhaustion
         handling and, in some cases, the controller is reset.
    
      o  If the READ of Logical Block #1 fails during INVALIDATE_ALL_ENTRIES
         or if WLG has been turned off, the shadow set will hang with a
         SEQCMD lock and an incorrectly incremented RWAITCNT.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXDRIV02_060 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.0:
    
      o  A tape drive will sometimes fail over to another HSX
         controller after the tape is dismounted.
    
      o  Numbers greater than 9999 which are randomly generated
         by HSx devices may cause the system to crash.
    
      o  RE-INITIALIZATION errors are reported to users of SCSI
         tape drives attached to an HSx controller.  This occurs
         if multiple SCSI tapes are attached to the HSx and all the
         tapes are at or near PEOT and the connection to the HSx is
         broken.
    
    
    Problems addressed in VAXSYS14_061 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.0:
    
      o  There is a race condition that may occur when a CFCB (Cache File
         Control Block) is being deleted due to XQP action and cache
         space is being reclaimed from a LIMBO file.
    
      o  Disk corruption can occur when heavy open/read/write/close/delete
         operations are occurring.
    
      o  At some point after a node CLUEXITs, 2 or more cluster nodes
         crash with LOCKMGRERR Bugchecks.
    
      o  When two or more VAX or Alpha nodes boot at the same time, one
         or more of them may crash.
    
    
    Problems addressed in the VAXSYS07_061 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.0:
    
      o  If a multi-programming application uses a non-homogenous
         access pattern to a file which is resident in Virtual I/O
         cache, there is a possibility that the size returned in the
         I/O status block from a READ operation will be truncated.
    
      o  If a clustered application uses of a large number of
         concurrent processes to perform file operations consisting
         of an OPEN, WRITE, and CLOSE sequence repetitively on the
         same data file, data corruption may occur.
    
      o  In a multi-programming environment where a significant
         amount of NEW data from a file is being loaded into the
         cache concurrently by multiple processes, the system may
         HANG.
    
      o  Documentation states that -1 as well as 0 is accepted as a
         wildcard  in  SYS$GETLKI.  However, that is no longer the
         case beginning with V5.5.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSYS01_061 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.0:
    
      o  SYS$CHKPRO had several problems that did not manifest themselves
         in a readily visible effect to the end user.  The problems
         include:
    
           -  accepting up to 11 rights lists even though no more than two
              would actually be processed.
    
           -  CHKPRO would accept a CHP$_UIC and write it over a location
              which was to contain a rightslist pointer.
    
           -  In most cases the wrong UIC was used in access checking.
    
         The only time the customer would notice a problem is if they
         specifically tested access to an object known to be protected
         from current rights and UIC settings.
    
      o  Nonpaged dynamic memory (NPAGEDYN) expansion occurs even when
         there is a large amount of free space available.  This can lead
         to performance problems as pool expansion causes free memory to
         be diverted away from that available to processes and dedicated
         to nonpaged pool usage.  For example, with a SHOW MEMORY/POOL
         command you can observe that the "Total" amount of "Nonpaged
         Dynamic Memory" increases when the amount of "Free" bytes is
         quite large:
    
              Dynamic Mem Usage (bytes): Total     Free      In Use    Largest
              Nonpaged Dynamic Mem       38555136  17372224  21182912    38720
              Paged Dynamic Mem          17282048   8295888   8986160  8265232
    
         Starting with the introduction of the Adaptive Pool Management
         (APM) feature, in OpenVMS VAX V6.0, these figures include the
         contributions of both the lookaside lists and the variable pool.
         So, a large "Free" figure is indicative of large (and possibly,
         growing) lookaside lists.  If the "Total" figure is increasing,
         it indicates that pool expansion is occurring, and that the
         lookaside list space is not being used effectively.
    
         The above symptom can result from either of the two following
         separate problems:
    
           -  A routine in the software which supports security features
              such as "rightslists" was obtaining a nonpaged pool block
              and then freeing it in two smaller pieces.
    
           -  An internal loop counter governing the number of times a
              lookaside list allocation was attempted, was set too low.
              This problem will most likely be seen on the VAX 6000 - 500
              and 600.
    
         A third software change associated with APM will also be
         available in a future OpenVMS VAX version, but is not available
         as a remedial change.  The third change provides a potential
         performance benefit under very specialized conditions, such as
         during VMScluster state transitions.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSYS03_060 & VAXSYS04_060 Kits for OpenVMS
    VAX V6.0:
    
      o  When tapes are served in cluster tape profiles cannot be changed.
         The problem has occurred in the following two ways:
    
           1) If discretionary access does not allow the audit server
              process access to the device, the profile cannot be changed.
    
           2) If the object server is available (though it had been
              started at least once), the ORB$V_TRANSITION flag is set and
              not cleared.  In this case, only BYPASS privilege allows
              access to the device.  This prevents a profile change as in
              (1).  The profile change, once it is allowed, must clear the
              TRANSITION flag.
    
      o  Cluster object profile resolution can fail for tape devices when
         ASSIGN fails with SS$_NOPRIV.  This has shown up in matrix
         testing with failures of STABACKIT and UETP.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSYS01_060 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.0:
    
      o  Attempting to access the VPROT item with GETDVI on UCX TYMNET
         terminals may result in an access violation. The VPROT item is
         implicitly accessed using $GETDEV and $GETCHN services, which are
         used by a number of utilities.
    
    
    RELATED ARTICLES:
    
    Detailed articles describing the problems listed above may exist in
    the STORAGE and OPENVMS databases.  To view these articles, open the
    appropriate product database and perform a query using either
    of the following search strings 'VAXSHAD04_060', 'VAXSYS' or 'VAXSHAD'.
    
    
    ECO KIT ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:
    
    If after an evaluation you wish to obtain this kit, request it
    electronically using the appropriate Advanced Electronic Services
    (AES) Service Tool.  If you are not familiar with how to request
    kits electronically, open the DIA, WIS or DSNLINK database and
    review the article entitled:
    
      [AES] How To Electronically Request ECO Kits Using Service Tools
    
    
    INSTALLATION NOTES:
    
    This kit *MUST* be installed on every VAX in a mixed-architecture
    VMScluster, and the Alpha (AXPSHAD) version of this kit *MUST* be
    installed on every Alpha system in the cluster BEFORE any systems
    are re-booted into the VMScluster.  If the correct kit is not
    installed on each system, shadow sets cannot be created. System
    crashes may also occur if the kits are not installed on all
    appropriate cluster nodes.
    
    The following restrictions will apply upon completion of the
    installation:
    
      o  VMSclusters with shadowed SCSI disks and mixed-architecture
         VMSclusters running OpenVMS Alpha V6.1 must apply the kit and
         reboot the entire cluster simultaneously.  In these cases,
         rolling upgrades are not supported.
    
      o  Working configurations that contain SCSI shadow sets on
         dissimilar controllers may no longer work.
      
      ==========================================================================
      |                     Table of Kit Image Information                     |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      |                            | Overall  | Image File      | Image Link   |
      | Image Name                 | Checksum | Identification  | Date/Time    |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | AUDIT_SERVER.EXE           |%XF9684C16| X-8             | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 05:58:38.70  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | DISMNTSHR.EXE              |%XB082F215| X-2             | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 05:28:03.79  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | DSDRIVER.EXE               |%X0B364BA3| X-51A3A1        | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:08:14.05  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | DUDRIVER.EXE               |%X4E7E6B10| X-51A3A1        | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:08:39.00  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | EXCEPTION.EXE              |%X5FBCA93E| X-24            | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:21:20.68  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | IO_ROUTINES.EXE            |%X5FDBFB44| X-24            | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:19:27.75  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | LOCKING.EXE                |%X77398667| X-24            | 20-JUN-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 12:16:04.41  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | MOUNTSHR.EXE               |%X67BCA19A| X-1             | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 05:28:16.53  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | MSCP.EXE                   |%X6098D7FE| X-36A1A1        | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:08:55.02  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | MTAAACP.EXE                |%XBB9BC0EE| X-3             | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:09:17.04  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | PAGE_MANAGEMENT.EXE        |%X6D730130| X-24            | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:13:47.97  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | PROCESS_MANAGEMENT.EXE     |%X9B289F66| X-24            | 28-JUN-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 15:28:57.73  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SECURITY.EXE               |%X328168F9| X-24            | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:20:35.17  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SHADOW_SERVER.EXE          |%X764CF6A3| X-19            | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:15:08.51  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SHDRIVER.EXE               |%XE87C3E18| X-89A1A4        | 30-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 09:42:35.82  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$CLUSTER.EXE            |%X67B42891| X-6             | 20-JUN-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 03:07:47.60  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYSINIT.EXE                |%X249511EB| X-21            | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:14:48.87  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYSMSG.EXE                 |%X71F80E69| X-24            | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:21:24.63  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYSTEM_PRIMITIVES.EXE      |%XEB974F6C| X-24            | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:15:45.08  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYSTEM_PRIMITIVES_MIN.EXE  |%X3A69E156| X-24            | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:17:21.53  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | TMSCP.EXE                  |%XBC9A28C0| X-19            | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:09:34.96  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | TUDRIVER.EXE               |%X622B1EDF| X-41A1A1        | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:09:07.76  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | VAXCLUSTER_CACHE.EXE       |%XF58441E2| X-24            | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:23:03.91  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | VMOUNT.EXE                 |%X46C2B522| X-15            | 17-MAY-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 06:08:54.16  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
    
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