Re: Many Alphaserver 1200 questions

From: Richard Tomkins (tomkinsr_at_istop.com)
Date: 09/16/05

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    OpenVMS to Tru64, probably shouldn't have to run ECU.

    However, having said that, I have never had any weird problems cause I
    always ran the ECU when changing things around such as hardware or updating
    firmware or changing the OS.

    I once had a customer that had some 4100's and the floppy drives showed up
    at the console, but Tru64 never saw them. He wanted to send all the hardware
    back for replacement. Took a lot of polite effort to get him to shut one
    system down to run the ECU, and then a second system and finally he was
    happy to do all 12 of them. Simple solution to problem for him that was a
    major issue.

    You are correct, there is a version of the ECU for Windows NT and a second
    version for OpenVMS/Tru64.

    When the original poster said the latest firmware was installed, the alarm
    bells went off cause after you do a firmware upgrade, you should run the
    ECU. Firmware upgrades can change where certain tables in memory are kept
    that relate to the ECU.

    The ECU, EISA Configuration Utility, although it says EISA, configures the
    various tuff built in to the systems, such as, Console, RDM port, Floppy,
    Serial ports, parallel port, USB and built-in display port if also there.
    >From what I remember on machines with built in video, you can turn the built
    in display on or off with the ECU.

    "Bob Kaplow" <kaplow_r@encompasserve.org.mars> wrote in message
    news:gmjVfKSMlow6@eisner.encompasserve.org...
    > In article <4328800a$1_1@news.cybersurf.net>, "Richard Tomkins"
    <tomkinsr@istop.com> writes:
    > > You must run the ECU when you change from OpenVMS to Tru64 to Windows
    NT. If
    > > you don't, the hardware is not set up properly. You get random faults or
    > > sometimes, if you're lucky, no faults.
    >
    > Is there a change going from VMS to Tru64? I thought both used the same
    > firmware. Ther ARE changes when going from either VMS or Tru to / from
    > Windoz.
    >
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