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stuart.irving@canrem.com (stuart irving) writes:

>James.  How new is your machine?  I remember from my SysAdmin course at
>Sequent (two years ago) that the S81 did not support SCSI disks; only
>the S27 did.  I have heard however, that there is now an upgrade to make
>it SCSI compatible.  It requires changing the SCSI bus and I believe it
>also needs a power supply upgrade.

I believe our Sequent will be turning 10 this year.  She's an oldie.
In fact we upgraded from the National CPUs (32016s?).  I wouldn't
think it matters but our SCSI drive has its own power supply.

>That's why I am suprised that you were able to do it.  But what do I
>know, I'm still running Dynix V3.0.17.

%cat /etc/motd|head -1
DYNIX(R) V3.0.17.9 NFS  #3 (root): Thu Mar 26 18:25:43 PST 1992

>Do you use the Multibus too?

Yes, we have two Eagles hooked up to the Multibus SMD controller (in
fact we have two more Eagles which we have been trying in vain to hook
up... hope springs eternal).

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James S. Vera (vera@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU) writes:

> I believe our Sequent will be turning 10 this year.  She's an oldie.
> In fact we upgraded from the National CPUs (32016s?).  I wouldn't
> think it matters but our SCSI drive has its own power supply.

Quite an oldie.  Ours is not quite seven years.  A note on the
back says "25 OCT 85", serial no 8559, and we still have the
ns32032 CPUs.

>> That's why I am suprised that you were able to do it.  But what do I
>> know, I'm still running Dynix V3.0.17.

> %cat /etc/motd|head -1
> DYNIX(R) V3.0.17.9 NFS  #3 (root): Thu Mar 26 18:25:43 PST 1992

What do you mean *still* running 3.0.17?
$ cat /sys/dynix/conf/vers.c
char version[] = "DYNIX (TM) V2.1.1  #1 (pen): Sat May 19 19:45:37 PDT 1990\n";

Our hardware can't run anything newer.  And, no, our computer
club can't afford a SCED card from Sequent that would enable us
to upgrade to Dynix 3.  Well, anyway, with a little luck we will
have a SCED card in a month or two that someone might donate to
us.  (And perhaps an entire Balance 8000 attached to it :-)


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