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FASTPATH.COM

A quick DCL hack to display which CPU is managing each fastpath capable device.

[20-Dec-2011]
New examples:   A few new programming examples have been added to the site. They are for the following services: sys$get_arith_exception, sys$gettim_prec, and sys$power_control. (24 words)

[06-Dec-2011]
Disaster recovery test mark II:   A second disaster recovery test was performed over the weekend. While we still have some niggling little problems (accessing the EVA's console from the test network, for example), everything worked flawlessly. I now have the recovery time down to approximately 40 minutes (which is a better deal that something like 20 hours when we did this with tape restores). (59 words)

[14-Nov-2011]
Disaster recovery test:   Yesterday we successfully tested part of our DR plan. This is the bit that restores the major ERP system to functionality. Without this system we're dead in the water. (97 words)

[06-Oct-2011]
Installing a BL860c i2:   The trials and tribulations of installing a BL860c i2. (1228 words)

[16-Aug-2011]
IOSB status for GETxxI calls:   Did you know that the status value in the I/O status block for most of the get information calls is a longword? What this means in practice is that you should be testing and returning the full longword rather than just the word for calls such as $GETSYI(W), $GETJPI(W), $GETQUI(W), etc. (346 words)

[15-Aug-2011]
Another crash:   This time on development. A little back story: the system this occurred on is running on a blade system, and... (859 words)

[04-Aug-2011]
Crash while verifying boot options:   While cleaning up some boot definitions with SYS$MANAGER:BOOT_OPTIONS.COM ready to relocate the system disk from one EVA disk group to another, we experienced a crash. The problem has been escalated to OpenVMS Engineering as we are running the latest and greatest update patch (UPDATE-V1000). (976 words)

[23-Jul-2011]
Cleaning up the Ubuntu boot partition:   Here's an article with the best method I've yet seen to clean up old versions of the linux kernel from your machine. (56 words)

[15-Jul-2011]
EVA reorg:   Reorganising the EVA into multiple disk groups with production in its own group is a really good idea. (193 words)