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In article <40298@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair) writes:
>In article <1992Oct19.191313.9635@alijku05.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> ddean@risc.uni-linz.ac.at writes:
>>I've seen references to Ultrix 4.3, while our DECsystem 5000/240 delivered  
>>a couple weeks ago came with 4.2A.  Is 4.3 available ?  If so, what are  
>>the differences between 4.2A and 4.3 ?  Should we upgrade ?
>
>NO!  We have a DECStation 3100 and an Exabyte 8mm tape drive, and
>the upgrade from 4.2a to 4.3 caused it to malfuntion!  When the tape
>drive is accessed, all the SCSI devices reset and errors are logged
>to the uerf file!  How annoying!
>
>Tony Burzio
>Arete Associates
>San Diego, CA


I was just on the verge of doing the upgrade myself (from 4.1 to 4.3)
on my DECStation 5000/200.

Now I'm not so sure.  Can anyone else (e.g., DEC personnel, if they're
willing to give an honest assessment) confirm/refute this problem
before I retreat and upgrade to 4.2A instead??

	- Grant Petty

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I *HATE* upgrading -- it ALWAYS creates more problems than it solves!
But sometimes you gotta just swallow hard and do it, because the new
software version (e.g, DEC GKS3D v1.2), the one with the critical bug
fix you desperately need (and presumably some new, even more critical
bugs thrown in for good measure), requires the new version of the OS.

If new cars were engineered as sloppily as most new software, car
manufacturers would go to jail.


-- 
Grant W. Petty                                gpetty@rain.atms.purdue.edu
Assistant Prof. of Atmospheric Science        (317) 494-2544
Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Purdue University, West Lafayette IN  47907-1397