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- From: larry@eco.twg.com (Lawrence B. Henry III)
- Subject: Re: SHOW/UNIBUS (was: What is XPDRIVER for?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.233103.911@eco.twg.com>
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- Sender: larry@vishnu.eco.twg.com (Lawrence B. Henry III)
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- Organization: The Wollongong Group (East Coast Operations)
- References: <1992Dec29.143542.4184@arizona.edu>,<1992Dec29.185622.1038@cmkrnl.com> <1hs7k7INNnqs@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Dec30.100239.1043@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 23:31:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.100239.1043@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
- |>I know about the theoretical problems, but I've been doing
- |>SYSGEN> SHOW/UNIBUS commands on live systems (kinda hard to do it on a dead
- |>one, but you know what I mean :-) for something like ten years
- |>without a *single* problem.
- |>
- |>There are some very old Unibus (and possibly Q-bus) devices that have
- |>"read-once" status bits in their CSRs -- once you read them they clear
- |>themselves -- or with other side effects on read operations. However even
- |>these are not going to be a problem unless SYSGEN's read gets done just ahead
- |>of a read that the device's driver needs to do. Since the driver's read of
- |>status bits would normally happen in an interrupt service routine, and since
- |>the ISR is going to do everything it has to do before any process-level code
- |>(like SHOW/UNIBUS) happens, it really isn't something to lose sleep over.
- |>
- |>> Using this command can crash your system.
- |>
- |>Calling all readers: Has ANYONE out there ever seen this actually happen?
- |>If so, what devices were on the bus?
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- Jamie,
- I have seen old DZ-11's (UNIBUS) lose characters when you do
- a show/unibus.. Long time ago on a VAX 11/780 running who knows what
- version of VMS...
-
- -Larry.
-