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DR11W problem solved in VMS 5.2

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From: Mark R Poulson
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 00:58
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I've finally been able to resolve our DR11W problem. VMS 5.2 comes with
XADRIVER version X-17 and in this version is a new feature that always sets
the attention bit (instead of clearing it) after receiving an interrupt.
Somewhere in our system (we have MDB not DEC DR11W boards), this setting of
the ATTN bit also sets the ERROR bit, which hoses us.

Our temporary solution was to go back to X-16 version of XADRIVER (this comes
with VMS 5.1). However, as a reply pointed out, there are bugs in this driver.
We tried it as it came from the factory and my problem was gone, but a new one
arose. Putting modifications in the XADRIVER code solved this and now it works
just fine.

The fixes needed in 5.0/5.1 are implemented in VMS 5.2 (XADRIVER X-17), but
there is the "new feature" to watch out for. If anyone our there has this
version of XADRIVER and it does/doesn't work with non-DEC boards, I'd
certainly like to hear about it.

Thanks to all who replied!

		Mark Poulson
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From: simnet@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark R Poulson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec
Subject: DR11W problem solved in VMS 5.2
Summary: XADRIVER, bugs, new feature
Message-ID: <1386@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 89 00:58:01 GMT
Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics, Seattle WA
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