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Re: VMS upgrade path question

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From: Klaus Steinberger
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 06:20
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mcculley@alien.enet.dec.com writes:


>In article <1991Jun13.065949.29415@tkou02.enet.dec.com>, diamond@jit533.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond) writes...
>#>In article <962@hadron.COM> klr@hadron.COM (Kurt L. Reisler) writes:
>#>>It seems that in the process of relocating the collection of upgrade tapes
>#>>from location A to location B, the car in which they were being carried
>#>>attempted to occupy the same physical space as a bus.

>Would that make the problem a bus error?

>#>Should have copied the upgrades over an Ethernet connection.  That has
>#>collision detection.

>I got the idea that the problem was not the collision going undetected, 
>but that it couldn't be corrected by retries.

The solution will be CSMA/CA  (Collision avoidance).

Klaus
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