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ALPMTAA01_070 Alpha V6.1; V7.0 MTAAACP ECO Summary
Copyright (c) Compaq Computer Corporation 1995, 1999. All rights reserved.
Modification Date: 01-FEB-99
Modification Type: Editorial Modification:
This kit is no longer applicable to OpenVMS
Alpha V6.2x.
OP/SYS: DIGITAL OpenVMS Alpha
COMPONENT: MTAAACP - MTAAACP.EXE
SOURCE: Compaq Computer Corporation
ECO INFORMATION:
ECO Kit Name: ALPMTAA01_070
ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit: ALPMTAA01_062
AXPMTAA01_061 (AXPMTAA)
ECO Kit Approximate Size: 1054 Blocks
Saveset A: 180 Blocks
Saveset B: 288 Blocks
Saveset D: 288 Blocks
Cover Letter: 10 Blocks
Kit Applies To: OpenVMS Alpha V6.1, V6.1-1H1, V6.1-1H2,
V7.0
System Reboot Necessary: No
Installation Rating: INSTALL_1
1 - To be installed on all systems running
the listed version(s) of OpenVMS.
NOTE: In order to receive the full fixes listed in this kit,
the following remedial kits also need to be installed:
ALPSHAD09_061 for OpenVMS Alpha V6.1 systems only.
The ALPSHAD09_061 ECO Kit for OpenVMS Alpha V6.1 systems
and this ALPMTAA01_070 ECO kit both contain the identical
MTAAACP.EXE image. Therefore, if you already have the
ALPSHAD09_061 ECO kit installed on your system, you already
have the most recent version of the MTAAACP.EXE image for
OpenVMS Alpha V6.1.
ECO KIT SUMMARY:
An ECO kit exists for MTAAACP on OpenVMS Alpha V6.1 and V7.0.
This kit addresses the following problems:
Problems addressed in the ALPMTAA01_070 kit for OpenVMS Alpha V7.0:
o MTAACP can hang during multivolume copy operations.
NOTE: According to OpenVMS Engineering, the fixes discussed
below have been included in OpenVMS Alpha V7.0. There
are some fixes that have been included in previous
versions of OpenVMS and those versions are specified in
text following the problem descriptions.
Problems addressed in the ALPMTAA01_062 kit:
o The system crashes with NOBVPVCB bugcheck when performing a test
for an empty queue with a DO_CANCEL function in ACPCTR.B32.
o The system crashes with an XQPERR bugcheck while dismounting a MAD
drive.
Problems addressed in the AXPMTAA01_061 kit:
o If a tape is initialized with a non-blank accessibility field and
then mounted using /OVERRIDE=(ACCESSIBILITY), the tape mounts but
cannot be read or written to. The command format to initialize
the tape would be similar to:
INIT/LABEL=VOLUME_ACCESSIBILITY="+" tape: LABEL
In addition, the following OPCOM messages are generated and the
tape volume is automatically unloaded after an attempt to WRITE
or READ the tape volume:
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 12-DEC-1994 12:57:23.53 %%%%%%%%%%% Message
from user USERXX on NODEXX non-blank accessibility field in
volume labels on SYS$DEVICE:
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 12-DEC-1994 12:57:23.54 %%%%%%%%%%%
o MTAAACP posts attention ASTs to its mailbox. If the AST
QUOTA reached zero and an attempt was made to kill the MTAAACP
process or the process that emitted the QIO, MTAAACP would go
into the RWAST state and hang.
RELATED ARTICLES:
Detailed articles describing the problems listed above may exist in the
OPENVMS database. To view these articles, open the appropriate product
database and perform a query using either of the following search
strings: 'ALPMTAA01_070' , 'ALPMTAA', or 'MTAAACP'.
ECO KIT ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:
If after an evaluation you wish to obtain this kit, request it
electronically using the appropriate Advanced Electronic Services
(AES) Service Tool. If you are not familiar with how to request
kits electronically, open the DIA, WIS or DSNLINK database and
review the article entitled:
[AES] How To Electronically Request ECO Kits Using Service Tools
INSTALLATION NOTES:
The system does not need to be rebooted after this kit is installed.
However, if you have other nodes in your VMScluster, they should be
rebooted or you should install this kit on each system in order to make
use of the new image(s).
==========================================================================
| Table of Kit Image Information |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| Image Information for V6.1 through V6.1-1H2 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| | Overall | Image File | Image Link |
| Image Name | Checksum | Identification | Date/Time |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| MTAAACP.EXE | DF6C9F6B | X-7 | 18-MAY-1995 |
| | | 18:17:55.57 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| Image Information for V7.0: |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| MTAAACP.EXE | 36C1E775 | X-7 | 25-OCT-1996 |
| | | 16:14:55.04 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
|
