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- From: mikes@Ingres.COM (Mike Schilling)
- Subject: Re: SHOW/UNIBUS (was: What is XPDRIVER for?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.023201.6158@pony.Ingres.COM>
- References: <1i6e3uINNrct@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 02:32:01 GMT
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- From article <1i6e3uINNrct@gap.caltech.edu>, by carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick):
- > In article <1992Dec30.100239.1043@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
- >>> 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?
- >
- > I've had it happen ONCE. On a VAXstation-II, running VWS. Of course, even
- > looking at that system cross-eyed seemed likely to crash it.
- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Yeah, I could crash a system like that reliably (so to speak) with the BACKUP
- command, if the target was MUA0: (a TK50). I have seen serial interfaces
- lose characters from SHOW/UNIBUS, but never a crash (hmm,
- SHOW/UNIBUS/OUTPUT=MUA0 might do it :-) )
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- mikes@ingres.com = Mike Schilling, INGRES, An ASK Group Company, Alameda, CA
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