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ALPDRIV12_061 Alpha V6.1 LRDRIVER ECO Summary
Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1995, 1996. All rights reserved.
OP/SYS: OpenVMS Alpha
COMPONENT: LRDRIVER
SOURCE: Digital Equipment Corporation
ECO INFORMATION:
ECO Kit Name: ALPDRIV12_061
ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit: ALPDRIV11_061
ALPDRIV09_061
ECO Kit Approximate Size: 216 Blocks
Kit Applies To: OpenVMS Alpha V6.1, V6.1-1H1, V6.1-1H2
System/Cluster Reboot Necessary: Yes
NOTE: In order to receive the full fixes listed in this kit,
the following remedial kits also need to be installed:
AXPSYS07_061
ECO KIT SUMMARY:
An ECO kit exists for LRDRIVER on OpenVMS Alpha V6.1 through V6.1-1H2.
This kit addresses the following problems:
Problems addressed in ALPDRIV12_061:
o The ALPDRIV11_061 remedial kit does not check to see if the system
on which the kit is being installed is an SMP (multi-processor)
system. If the system is an SMP system and the AXPSYS07_061
remedial kit is not installed, installing the ALPDRIV11_061 kit
will lead to system instability. The ALPDRIV12_061 kit
installation procedure will check to see if the system the kit
is being installed on is an SMP (multi-processor) system. If so,
the kit will check to see if the AXPSYS07_061 remedial kit has
been installed. If not, ALPDRIV12_061 will not install. This
is a problem for SMP systems only.
Problems addressed in ALPDRIV11_061:
o All known problems with TAB expansions.
o Random non-useful completion status is sometimes returned.
The correct, meaningful error status is now returned.
o The system might crash with a double deallocate when a
device is spooled.
o Random garbage characters may be printed when the printer
is set to 'DEVICE/PRINTALL.'
o Problems may exist with DEClaser 1152 and third-party
CalComp[TM] & Tektronics[R] plotters and LP27s.
These problems are fixed in OpenVMS Alpha V7.0.
Problems addressed in ALPDRIV09_061:
o If the following commands are executed:
$DEFINE/FORM/NOWRAP/NOTRUNC FORMNAME FORMNUMBER
$SET DEVICE /SPOOLED LRA0:
$INIT/QUEUE/START/ON=NODE::LRA0/DEF=(NOFEED,NOFLAG,-
$_NOBURST,NOTRAILER,FORM=FORMNAME) queuename
$SET PRINTER/CR/NOFALLBACK/FF/LOWER/PAGE=66/PASSALL-
$_/PRINTALL/TAB/NOTRUNC/UNKNOWN/WIDTH=132/NOWRAP LRA0:
$PRINT/QUEUE=queuename/FORM=formname/PASSALL filename
After 2 minutes the queue goes into stalled status.
If the customer then tries:
STOP/QUEUE queuename
SET DEVICE/NOSPOOLED LRA0:
The system will crash with a double deallocation memory error
due to incorrect register usage.
RELATED ARTICLES:
Detailed articles describing the problems listed above may exist in
the OPENVMS database. To view these articles, open the appropriate
product database and perform a query using either of the following
search strings: 'ALPDRIV12_061' or 'ALPDRIV'.
ECO KIT ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:
If after an evaluation you wish to obtain this kit, request it
electronically using the appropriate Advanced Electronic Services
(AES) Service Tool. If you are not familiar with how to request
kits electronically, open the DIA, WIS or DSNLINK database and
review the article entitled:
[AES] How To Electronically Request ECO Kits Using Service Tools
INSTALLATION NOTES:
In order for the corrections in this kit to take effect, the system
must be rebooted. If the system is a member of a VMScluster, the
entire cluster must be rebooted.
REFERENCES:
[TM] CalComp is a trademark of Lockheed Corporation.
[R] TEKTRONIX is a registered trademark of Tektronix, Inc.
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| Table of Kit Image Information |
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| | Overall | Image File | Image Link |
| Image Name | Checksum | Identification | Date/Time |
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| SYS$LRDRIVER.EXE | D0DA2954 | X-2 | 1-FEB-1996 |
| | | 19:04:34.47 |
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