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CHANGES MADE TO SYSTEM-CONFIGURABLE FILES (U436295)
CHANGES MADE TO SYSTEM-CONFIGURABLE FILES (U436295): IX45817 Changes made to /etc/ddi/options. IX45823 Changes made
to /etc/predefined.at and /etc/master for
the busmaster token ring on ISA machines.
Add stanza to /etc/predefined.at
Change major number in /etc/master from 56 to 82. IX46229 Add "mantaray = 1" to the sysparms stanza in /etc/system. IX45818
Changes made to
/etc/master, /etc/ddi/options, /etc/ddi/descriptions
and /etc/predefined.at for 3COM 3C509 Etherlink III.
/etc/ddi/options
/etc/ddi/descriptions
/etc/predefined.at
IX45921 Changes in /etc/system to
allow user to add more than one SCSI tape device.
CHANGES MADE TO SYSTEM-CONFIGURABLE FILES (U400005): IX30193 src.i386/cmd/cfg/dev/cfg/predefined When the small kernel boot diskettes are used to install AIX an error about no usable ports is given when trying to add the 16/4 token ring card. IX33112 Install on model 80 with 1 ESDI drive, 2 SCSI drives, fails to recognize ESDI drive if SCSI boot diskettes are used. IX36582 When devices is used to add a SCSI tape device, it shows that an 8mm tape drive is being added. This should say any SCSI tape drive such as 8mm, 1/4", data tech. etc. The /etc/predefined file will need to be merged with the /etc/predefined.new.oskern to get this change. IX36894 src.i386/cmd/cfg/dev/cfg/predefined
The script adds the following stanza to the /etc/predefined
file for serial mouse support:
IX36538 src.i386/cmd/cfg/dev/cfg/predefined The /etc/predefined file will need to be merged with the /etc/predefined.new.oskern to get this change. IX36915 src.i386/cmd/cfg/dev/cfg/predefined.at The /etc/predefined file will need to be merged with the /etc/predefined.at to get this change. IX30077 kernel/cf/master.i386 The script adds the following stanzas to the /etc/master file: * Foreground color
* background color
SMALL PROGRAMMING ENHANCEMENTS (U436295): IX46197 Add support for memory above 64MB. This will allow the user to access up to 256MB of RAM with AIX/PS2. Care needs to be taken when installing this APAR on systems with greater than 80 megabytes of memory. If there is greater than 80 megabytes of memory on the machine being installed, it is possible that memory can be corrupted by the memory usage settings that ship with this PTF. The solution for this problem is as follows: Install AIX BASE code and U436295 on a machine with less than 80 megabytes of memory (between 8 megabytes and 64 megabytes is recommended). After installation, edit /usr/sys/cf/i386.ifile and find the following section: MEMORY {
Modify it to change the virtual load address of the kernel: MEMORY {
Execute: newkernel
-install
NOTE: If you have more than 80 megabytes of memory in a machine it will not log any error messages if you install without following the directions above. You should not install with more than 80 megabytes of memory. Extra memory needs to be added after changing the values and rebuilding the kernel as documented above. Failure to follow these instructions could cause memory corruption and other problems where a re-install would be necessary. We have tested configurations of up to 128 megabytes of memory. IX44820 X11R5 multi-head support and S3 SVGA 1024x768x256 color support. Multi-Head Support For X-Server The new AIX PS/2 X Windows and Motif supports multiple display adapters (multi-head) with seamless movement of mouse across displays. Currently the X-server can support up to 8 display adapters, though more than one instance of the same adapter is possible for XGA only (by hardware design). All other adapters (VGA, 8514/A, Image Adapter) can only have one instance in the system. It is possible to have up to 8 instances of XGA in the system. The multi-head support is only supported on the PS/2 (MC bus) only, and is not available on the ISA bus. This is because of the lack of multiple video card support on the ISA bus. The following options were added to the X-server for multi-head support -all Runs the Xserver on all available displays. (This does not include the planar VGA, if available.) e.g xinit -all -allp Runs the Xserver on all available displays, and the planar VGA port on systems like model 80. e.g xinit -allp -P<r><c>
<display no> {/vga} | <display name> {/vga}
This option is used for specific placement of displays. The utility (see defect 531) lsdisp, displays the displays cards attached to the system with a display number and the name of the display. The numbers <r> and <c> denotes the element in the placement matrix where the display will be placed for the sake of cursor movement. for example a matrix of 4 displays can be specified with the following row and column numbers.
----------------
This means the cursor can have a seamless movement from
11 to 12, 11 to 21,
Of course, the movement can be four-directional without any bound using -wrap option, or vertically/horizontally without any bound using -wrapy / -wrapx options. When using the /vga option with the display number or the display name, the display can be run in 640x480 16-color VGA mode. e.g For instance, if there are two display cards installed, an XGA and a 8514/A, with XGA as display number 1 and the 8514 as display number 2, X can be run as follows:
xinit -P11 1 -P12 2
This will run the 8514 in VGA mode and the XGA in XGA mode. Note: only one instance of VGA can be specified. Note: To get multiple XGA adapters to work, the last XGA adapter on the system should have its 1 MB VRAM aperture disabled. This can be done using the reference diskette. If the 1 MB VRAM aperture is disabled to run X in XGA mode, the system will try to use the 4 MB VRAM aperture. Using the 4 MB VRAM aperture is only possible when the adapter is plugged into the 32 bit slot. There are only 3 such slots on the model 80. Therefore, it is possible to have a VGA and up to 3 XGA or XGA-2 adapters on a model 80. (The last card is determined by the adapter slot number and the adapter order shown when the configuration is viewed with the reference diskette.) S3 SVGA Support APAR IX44820 was used to add support the S3 SVGA support for ISA based machines. The mode supported is 1024x768 by 256 colors. Currently, S3 SVGA has only been tested on ISA based machines. Though it has not been tested on PS/2s, it is believed that S3 SVGA should run without modifications on PS/2s as the default display on the planar. An option specific to S3 SVGA was added to the X-server: -waitstates {0|1|2|3} default is 1. There were some problems with 0 waitstates. For better performance try 0 waitstates. Monitors
Supported
IX46013 Add support for Dual Store ITBU. Problem 1: Uneven head wear causing CRC errors. The old ITBU driver numbered the tracks on a tape from 0 to 31 starting rom the bottom. Because of this, the ITBU's heads were wearing unevenly causing CRC errors. The new driver writes tapes from the middle track out, alternating tracks. In this way, the heads wear evenly. The only fix for this once the problem has occurred is to replace the ITBU Unit. For this reason, AIX/PS2 Support STRONGLY RECOMMENDS that the old ITBU driver be replaced with the new ITBU driver. Problem 2: ITBU timeout on a PS/2 Model 9577 with a National Semiconductor Floppy Controller. On systems with the National Semiconductor floppy
controller and the old ITBU driver, the following error message was
seen when using the backup command:
MCART New command added: NAME
MCART Commands: drive
Shows driver's version and drive type information
DESCRIPTION
Special file:
/dev/rst4
Special file: gives the name of the special file used to access the driver. Driver version: has the version of the driver linked with the kernel. Drive type: gives an "equivalent" tape drive model number as determined by the MC driver. Since the exact model number of the tape drive depends on the drive's form factor and whether the drive is mounted in its own cabinet, the equivalent model number may not be the exact model of the installed tape drive. The following is a list of equivalent drives: 110:
110, 310, 410
The brackets in the 120<XL> and 145<XL> mean the letters "XL" may or may not be present. When the letters "XL" appear, the drive is capable of servo writing extra long (i.e., 307.5 foot DC2120) tapes. Note: When this
field displays "125/145", either a 125 drive or an early model 145 drive
with a DC1000 is present, the driver can't distinguish between the
two.
Drive firmware: has the firmware type number and revision level. This line is present only for drives which report this information. Controller type: has a mnemonic for the floppy controller to which the tape drive is attached:
Mnemonic Description
Unit select (0-3): gives the controller's unit select, in the range 0 through 3. The unit select selects the drive. Port address: has the floppy controller's base I/O port. Interrupt request: has the system bus's interrupt line. DMA channel: tells the DMA controller's channel. Track pattern written: tells the track pattern written (see Track Write Pattern below). Read-after-write verification: gives the read-after-write verification method (see Read-After-Write Verification below). info Displays cartridge information. For example: Cartridge state: Formatted and has a divergent block relocation table Cartridge format:
145
Cartridge state: gives the current state of the cartridge's format. Cartridge format: indicates the format on the cartridge's tape. The format is given in a code which is the same as the drive model on which the cartridge was originally formatted (see mcart drive and the section on MINICARTRIDGES for details). When the cartridge is blank, the code has the format which would be applied by the command: "mcart format". Capacity: tells the total cartridge capacity in 512-byte blocks and Kilobytes. Used: has the number of blocks written from beginning-of-tape. This message is displayed only after writing the tape with sequential access device special files. Remaining: gives the remaining space on a cartridge, from end-of-data to end-of-tape. This message is displayed only after writing the tape with sequential access device special files. Write protect slider position: says either RECORD or PROTECT.
capacity Shows cartridge capacity
in 512-byte blocks.
format Either formats or reformats
a cartridge.
The formatting procedure is subdivided into phases:
The servo phase is only performed when the cartridge is blank (bulk erased). After servo tracks are written, sector fields are written. After writing sector fields the tape is certified. Certification involves activating a margin circuit in the tape drive and reading each tape block. Tape blocks found marginal during certification are remembered. After certification, the tape header block (first block on the tape) is written. The tape header is written with multiple copies of tape parameter information and the list of marginal blocks. Finally the tape header is read and verified. If formatting fails the cartridge should be bulk erased before trying again. If formatting fails repeatedly, discard the cartridge. The best bulk eraser for minicartridges is a 5-Amp at 120 VAC, or greater, AC bulk tape eraser (a possible source is Radio Shack). To bulk erase a tape: Turn the bulk eraser on. Place the eraser's erasing (flat) surface against the top (plastic) side of the cartridge. Move the eraser in a slow circular motion (about 3 circles per second) over the surface of the cartridge as though you were hand mixing a can of thick house paint. Continue the motion for at least 10 seconds. Then, while circling, slowly separate (very slowly for the first few inches) the cartridge and eraser. When separation is three feet, turn the eraser off. formatunused Sets cartridge to the "unused" state An "unused" cartridge is similar to a factory pre-formatted cartridge (fresh out of the box). When a cartridge is formatted and has a valid header block, formatunused simply updates the header to set the cartridge to the "unused" state. Update time is about a minute. When a cartridge is not formatted or the header block is invalid, formatunused behaves like the "format" command. All operations necessary to format the tape are performed and the cartridge is in the "unused" state.
getdefects <-p> Shows defect
lists (-p for brief display)
rewind Rewinds the tape in a cartridge. The rewind command sets the logical read/write tape pointer to beginning-of-tape. This is useful when using the no-rewind driver as it positions the tape for either overwriting from or scanning for filemarks from beginning-of-tape. Note that the driver always physically rewinds the tape on the completion of a tape backup or restore operation whether or not the no-rewind special file is used. reten Retensions the tape in a cartridge. Retensioning first winds the tape to end-of-tape, then rewinds the tape to the load-point hole at the beginning-of-tape. Retensioning ensures even tension between the tape and tape head through the entire length of tape. Retensioning should be performed for cartridges which have been stored for a period of months. Like the rewind command, reten resets the logical tape pointer to beginning-of-tape. erase Writes end-of-data mark at beginning-of-tape Erase clears any previously written archives by writing an end-of-data mark at the beginning-of-tape. This logical minicartridge operation takes less than a minute. WARNING: If the erase command is used in conjunction with a minicartridge driver version 2.x.x with an older 145 tape drive attached, the tape is physically erased. If physically erased, the tape must be re-formatted. wfm Writes a filemark at the current logical position. Filemarks are optionally used to separate tape backups. The wfm command is accepted only by sequential access special files and are typically used only with the no-rewind device special file (e.g., /dev/nrctmini) with tar or cpio. In addition, filemarks can be written only on factory formatted tapes or tapes formatted by the MC driver. An error is displayed when these conditions are not met. The driver stores a filemarks list at the beginning-of-tape. rfm Positions tape just past the next filemark. Starting from the current logical tape position, rfm reads and positions just past the next filemark. When no more filemarks are present, tape is logically positioned to the end-of-data append point and the message "At end-of-data" is displayed. When no filemark list is present on the tape an error message is displayed. This command is only useful when using the no-rewind device special file (e.g, /dev/nrctmini) for tar and cpio. eod Positions tape to end-of-data for appending Eod logically positions tape just past the last archive and/or filemarks written on the tape. This command is only useful when using the no-rewind device special file (e.g., /dev/nrctmini) with tar or cpio. Read-After-Write Data Verification During the write operation, the drive has no way of telling the quality of data written. Thus, to improve reliability of data recovery, the tape driver supports an optional read-after-write verification feature.
Read-after-write verification can be performed using
either of two techniques: checksum or byte-for-byte.
The byte-for-byte technique saves both checksums and data for each tape block written. Tape block data is saved in disk storage called the "hold". During read-after-write verification, tape blocks are read back and compared against data saved in the hold. The hold data is validated using saved checksums. Read-after-write per block hard error tolerance is stricter than normal read operations in that 1) the number of retries is reduced and 2) only a single CRC error is allowed. Blocks with one CRC error are recovered with ECC. While blocks with more than one CRC error are deemed unrecoverable even if recoverable using ECC. For checksum verify: Any recovered block whose checksum matches the saved checksum is a successfully verified block. Any recovered block whose checksum does not match the saved checksum reports an error. Likewise, any block, deemed unrecoverable, which is either not recoverable using ECC or whose checksum, after ECC recovery, does not match the saved checksum reports an error. Any block deemed unrecoverable, which is both recovered by ECC and has a checksum which matches the saved checksum is a candidate for rewriting using the recovered data. For byte-for-byte verify: Any recovered block which compares with data saved in the hold is a successfully verified block. Any recovered block which fails to compare with data saved in the hold, and any unrecoverable block is a candidate for rewriting using data retrieved from the hold. A candidate for rewriting is first rewritten in place, then re-verified. If, after re-verification, the block is still a candidate for rewriting, the block is reassigned to a spare block area on tape, written to the new assignment, and again re-verified. If after re-verification the block is still a candidate, an error is reported. Because read-after-write verification takes an additional pass, backup time is approximately double that of a backup without verification. The following are mcart commands used to show or set the read-after-write-verification control: verify shows the current read-after-write verify setting: verify_off, verify_checksum, or verify_byteforbyte. verify_off disables read-after-write verification. (Except for the checksum verification of a single block during the first "device open" in which a tape block is written after system boot.) verify_checksum tells the driver to perform read-after-write verify using checksum comparison. verify_byteforbyte tells the driver to perform read-after-write verification using byte-for-byte comparison with data saved, during write, in disk holding storage. If there is insufficient disk space storage, checksum verification is used. This is noted by a console message. Track Write Pattern There are two track patterns called "zigzag" and "divergent". Using the zigzag (from bottom to top of tape) pattern gives interchange compatibility with sites using older versions of the minicartridge (mc) driver. Using the divergent (from center of tape outward) pattern promotes even head wear and improves reliability, but lacks interchange compatibility with earlier versions of the minicartridge driver. The following are mcart commands used to show or set the track write pattern control:
pattern shows the current track write
pattern:
pattern_diverge_all tells the driver to write all tapes with the divergent track pattern. pattern_diverge_unused causes the driver to write "unused" tapes with the (more reliable) divergent track pattern. If a tape has previously been "used" with the zigzag pattern, it will continue to be written with that pattern until set to the "unused" state using the command: "mcart formatunused". pattern_zigzag_all tells the driver to write all tapes with the zigzag track pattern.
pattern_zigzag_unused tells
the driver to write "unused" tapes with the zigzag pattern (for compatibility
with earlier versions of the driver). If a tape has previously
been "used" with the divergent pattern, it will continue to be written
with that pattern until set to the "unused" state with the command:
"mcart formatunused"
Table of Minicartridge Format Parameters ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | AccuTrak | | | | | Sectors | Dens- |Cart- | Reorder | Cart- | Total | | Blocks | per | ity | | | | | | | | |ridge | Number | ridge | Tape | Trks | per | Block | FTPI | | | | | | | | |Format | | | Blocks | | Track | Data | ECC | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6400 | 110 | 1000-10 | DC1000 | 1264 | 8 | 158 | 8 | 0 | 6400 | 120 | 2000-20 | DC2000 | 1190 | 14 | 85 | 16 | 2 | 6400 | 120XL | 2000-30 | DC2120 | 1792 | 14 | 128 | 16 | 2 | 10000 | 125 | 1000-20 | DC1000 | 1320 | 12 | 110 | 16 | 2 | 10000 | 145 | 2000-40 | DC2000 | 2480 | 20 | 124 | 16 | 2 | 10000 | 145XL | 2000-60 | DC2120 | 3720 | 20 | 186 | 16 | 2 | 13200 | 165 | 2000-64 | DC2000 | 3936 | 24 | 164 | 16 | 2 | 11600 | 285 | 2000-80 | DC2000 | 2752 | 32 | 86 | 29 | 3 | 11600 | 285XL | 2000-120 | DC2120 | 4160 | 32 | 130 | 29 | 3 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes: The suffix part of the AccuTrak Reorder Number is an approximate cartridge capacity in Megabytes. All formats use 1024 byte MFM encoded sectors. Table
of Drive Read/Write Compatibility for Cartridge Formats
Note: EXTRA LONG (XL) DC2120 CARTRIDGE COMPATIBILITY Extra long (i.e., DC2120) cartridges are incompatible with the following drives as the drive will not physically accommodate the cartridge: 110, 310, 410, 125, 225, 325, 425, and 725 Even though DC2120 cartridges are physically accepted in the following drives, they may not be formatable: 120, 220, 320, 420, 720, 2020, 145, 245, 345, 445, 745, 2040
Drives manufactured previous to about 1989 don't recognize the longer
tape. Although, the MC driver reads
and writes preformated xtra long tapes in these drives,
it is unable to correctly ormat hem.
Formatting will start, but terminate in error.
To determine whether a drive supports formatting of DC2120 cartridges,
use the mcart utility. If the command "mcart drive" reports a drive
type with the suffix "XL", formatting of
DC2120 cartridges is supported.
IX44807/IX44850/IX45731 ThinkPAD Support The following three APARs provide support for additional ThinkPAD models. Also see IX36900 in the "SMALL PROGRAMMING ENHANCEMENTS (U400005)" section below. IX44807 Support has been added for the ThinkPAD Model 720/720c. IX44850 Kernel enhancements for ThinkPAD 700 support. IX45731 Add support for ThinkPAD 750/750c. IX41980 Changes for PS/2 Model 80 mother-board upgrade. Add support for Model 80 mother upgrade changes in kernel and IDE driver. This system is a 486 and has planar IDE. IX41997 Need support for non-default attributes on tape drives. Added code so that users can now use tctl to change the settings for the tape drives. For instance, if a drive supports compression, it can be turned on using tctl. IX44814 Support has been added for Adaptec SCSI adapter on ISA bus. IX44841 Added support for ISA based 3COM 3C509 Etherlink III ethernet adapter. IX45072 Support added for PS/2 9577 - Models 76i, 76s, 77i, and 77s. IX45073 SCSI tape does not work with Future Domain SCSI adapter. Support added for 4mm Tape. The Hewlett-Packard 4mm tape drive cannot use some brands of 4mm tapes. Please check the information shipped with your 4mm drive type to find out which brands of 4mm tapes can be used by your 4mm drive. When a 4mm tape drive has problems with a particular brand of 4mm tape, the following error messages may be seen: tar:
write error: Write-Protected media
IX45088 Support added for PS/2 Micro-Channel Future Domain SCSI adapter. IX45535 Add support for new Future
Domain SCSI adapter. There is a new revision
of the Future Domain adapter, FRU number 71G0707, customer
part number 70G8496. The old Future Domain adapter was withdrawn
on 3/31/94; the FRU number on the old Future Domain adapter
was 92F0330, customer part number 32G4088. AIX will not install
on FRU number 71G0707. It can fail with the following
error messages:
Note: With either revision of the Future Domain adapter, it is necessary to always boot from the floppy boot diskettes until this PTF is applied. IX45823 Support has been added for the Token-Ring 16/4 II adapter, also known as the 16-bit ISA bus master token ring adapter. IX45090 Support added for NEC CDROM. IX46218 Implement AIX PS/2 Print
Screen functionality.
SMALL PROGRAMMING ENHANCEMENTS (U400005): IX36893 A new install option has been added to install over a network.
NETWORK INSTALL
2 Boot diskettes (Generic
as supplied from 1.3, the Non-SCSI
Information: You will need to have the following information to complete the network installation. Remote
host name and Remote net address:
Local host
name and Local net address
Netmask
Network
Device
Route Thru
and Route Machine Address
Remote
filesystem
Image path
and name
The following are the questions that you will be asked during the network installation. The parenthesized items are the defaults and will be selected if you just press enter at an item without entering any information.
Remote host name (servergate)
Procedures:
Phase I:
Phase II:
You will be prompted to insert the Network Installation Option diskette.
Answer the questions using the information you gathered earlier. Notes on Netinstall for ISA Bus Machines When installing an ISA bus machine over token ring, make sure the adapter attached to the net you wish to use has the factory default settings for a primary token ring adapter. Once this is done, netinstall will proceed exactly as on a Microchannel machine. CREATING INSTALL IMAGES FOR NETWORK INSTALLATION
1) Find out exactly how much space you will need on the install server. The amount of space needed depends upon what you are planning to install. Information about how much space is needed can be found on page 2-7 and 2-8 of the "Installing and Customizing the Operating System" manual. (The operating system takes roughly 22 megabytes.) 2) Run the 'minidisks' command and create a partition at least twice the size of the image to be made. Therefore, you should have a partition of approximately 44 megabytes to create an image for the operating system. Name the partition /images and create it to be automatically mounted and read/write. 3) Change directories to /images as follows: cd /images 4) Restore the operating system into the directory that is mounted on the minidisk with the command: restore -xvf /dev/fd0 5) AIX will prompt you to mount volume 1 on /dev/fd0 and will continue asking for the diskettes until you have restored the entire operating system. (There are 15 operating system diskettes.) 6) When completed with the restore, create a backup file of the contents of the directory that was just created: find . -print | backup -ivf /images/opsys 7) The file /images/opsys will become your network install image for the operating system. You can follow the same pattern as above to create network install images for the other Licensed Program Products, replacing the space requirements, disks to be used, and the name of the network install image appropriately. IX36894 Support for serial port mouse has been added. Serial Mouse Driver for AIX 1.3 This update provides support for a serial mouse, i.e., a mouse connected to he system via a serial port as opposed to a mouse port (which uses the keyboard controller). Several limitations exist in this support: 1. Only one serial mouse is supported. 2. For machines which have both a mouse port and serial ports, the user should use the mouse port. Do not add a serial port mouse if a mouse port mouse is connected to the system. 3. The serial port mouse must be added via devices (a mouse port mouse is NOT added via devices). To add the serial mouse with devices, choose mouse from the device classes menu and then choose smouse from the device type menu. You will need a free serial port (one that has not been added as a tty or printer port) on your system. If you have added a tty (or serial printer) that you now wish to use as the mouse serial port, you will have to use devices and delete that tty before adding the mouse. 4. If you use the mouse under DOS
Merge, you will need to attach the tty port to merge, e.g. DOS+acom1=/dev/tty0
and ensure that the DOS mouse driver looks for the
5. The OEM mouse that will be attached to the serial port must send sequences that are compatible with the IBM mouse or Microsoft mouse. 6. Depending on the mouse used and user preference, you may want to change mouse acceleration and threshold. For X-Windows, this may be done with the -a and -t options from the command line that starts the X Server. These values may also be changed from applications. A sample program to do this is distributed with the X11 Samples LPP from IBM (usr/lpp/X11/samples/clients/xset). IX36895 Support has been added for 8mm Tape Cartridge drive. IBM 8505 8mm Tape Cartridge Drive (P/Ns 21F8650, 21F8652 and 46G2224) Being a SCSI device, there are no new requirements to support this device. However the following should be noted: This tape drive supports 3 formats: 2.3 GigaByte
The drive will read all formats by default.
IX36915 AIX SUPPORT FOR THE ISA SCSI-2 ADAPTER. Notes for IBM AT Fast SCSI Card Support for the IBM 16-Bit AT Fast SCSI Adapter has been added for ISA bus machines. The default jumper settings described in the user's manual should be used for the first card installed unless there are conflicts with other adapters in the system. Subsequent SCSI cards will need to be configured to not conflict with previous SCSI cards. We support all SCSI devices mentioned in the Programming Announcement for AIX PS/2 Version 1.30. When the machine is first installed from the golden image, the kernel will not recognize the SCSI adapter. This will only be relevant if you are attempting to install onto SCSI disks. In order to install onto SCSI disks, you must continue to boot from diskette until this update has been applied and a new kernel built. The following is an outline of the steps you will need to perform to freshly install a SCSI disk system: 1) Boot from diskette and perform first stage
installation
If your machine does not use any SCSI disks, you may boot from the hard drive in step (3) above. IX36900 Support has been added for Thinkpad models. AIX 130 now supports the following Micro Channel Bus Architecture notebooks:
N51 SX
Note the following items: The N51 SX, N51 SLC and CL57 SX will last about fifteen minutes on battery power. The 700 and 700C will last about two hours on battery power. If the battery fails or is drained while AIX is running AIX will not shutdown gracefully. IX36903 Support has been added for the 4mm DDS Tape Cartridge drive. IBM 35480A 4mm DDS Tape Cartridge Drive
Being a SCSI device, there are no new requirements to support this device. However the following should be noted: The Drive will read standard (non-compressed format) and compressed format tapes. For writing, the DDS drive defaults to 2.0 GB (2,000,000,000 bytes, not 2*1024*1024*1024 bytes), uncompressed format. If compression is turned on with the tctl command, 2.0 to 4.0 GB of data can be written to the tape, depending on the data content. For writing, the DDS-2 drive defaults to 4.0 GB (4,000,000,000 bytes, not 4*1024*1024*1024 bytes), uncompressed format. If compression is turned on with the tctl command, 4.0 to 10.0 GB of data can be written to the tape, depending on the data content. IX36904 Support has been added for the SCSI QIC-1000 Tape Drive. 5.25" QIC-1000 1/4" Tape Cartridge Drive (P/N 21F8719) Being a SCSI device, there are no new requirements to support this device. However the following should be noted: The QIC-1000 can hold up to 1 GigaByte of data. IX36906 This update adds support for the IBM 8595. IX36908 Lvl is an administrative program which will show what level a system is at. It also will compare all history files to make sure that a system is in a workable state. IX36909 SCSI tape support has been added to the ez utilities. IX36910 An option has been added to the AIX install to delete other operating systems from the hard disk. IX36916 AIX driver support for AT Bus ITBU (IRWIN-compatible with Micro Channel ITBU). Internal Tape Backup System Support added for the internal tape backup unit on ISA/EISA systems. The IRWIN Internal Tape Backup System tape drive is compatible with IBM's ITBU tapes and format. All the archive commands that currently work with existing micro-channel ITBU will work with the ISA/EISA Tape Drive. The drive has a three position jumper switch that is set according to the number of drives on the floppy controller and also the floppy connector type. Capacity : 120MB The configurations available: Jumper
Floppy
Number of floppy
Model : A250 Internal Tape Backup System (accuTRAK standard) P/N 73-0-61007001 IX36944 Support for ISA Bus added. ISA/EISA
systems
NOTE: The adapters that are factory installed (packaged with the system) may not be supported. For the peripherals and adapters supported on ISA/EISA machines please consult the list of "small programming enhancements" in this document. To
install on these machines, you will need to use the new boot and install
disks provided in this update.
APAR ABSTRACTS (U436295): IX35631 If the NLLANG variable is set in the /etc/environment file, tn causes two login prompts to be generated. IX37278 The ezinstall installation fails with "first_mini mkdir /u failure". If an AIX system is configured and installed setting /u=0, then a new filesystem is made (hd7 by default) connected to /u (for example /u/oracle), then "ezcustom" is executed selecting "build BOOT & INSTALLATION diskettes" (/u/oracle is mounted), finally executing "ezbackup -s | /etc/backup -iqvf /dev/rst0" to make a system image, you will not be able to install AIX again through the Mass Installation process. IX37526 dosdir and dosread not usable with hard drive and subdirectories. Unable to get the dosdir and dosread commands to recognize a hard disk filesystem and subdirectories under it. Floppy works correctly with subdirectories. IX37527 Only one OEM serial printer
can be configured on AIX PS/2 1.3.0.
IX37531 Cannot install from tape on PS/Valuepoint with Irwin tape drive. AIX PS/2 install from ITBU fails with a tape read error when attempting to install on PS/ValuePoint with an IRWIN internal tape drive. IX37935 If a user telnets into AIX PS/2, his login shell has a filesize limit of 524280 blocks regardless of the systemwide default set in the sysparms section of /etc/system. The only exception to this is if the filesize limit for the userid used is set in the gcos section of the /etc/passwd file. This problem also exists if rlogin, rexec, or rsh is used. This problem does not exist if the user logs in from a regular tty or from the console. IX37973 select() with timeout returns without a message received when using two named pipes. Using two named pipes as input to server from client1 and client2 and a named pipe as output from server to client1; while client2 is sending messages every 5 seconds, client1 will respond to a message from server after 2 seconds. Server is waiting for this message doing a select() with a 60 seconds timeout on the named pipe of client1. This testcase will run for a while as designed. Highly intermittent select() returns without a message received from client1 and before the 60 seconds timeout is elapsed, this will happen just in that time when a message was sent by client2. IX41975 Creating 2000 kernel buffers causes the system to panic because there is not enough room in the dynamic kernel space for that many buffers. IX41996 FTP fails when transferring files larger than 4096 bytes over X.25. IX43181 AIX not responding to ARP requests with largest frame bits 111. Single-route broadcasts issued by the Macintosh to either AIX PS/2 1.3 or AIX RS/6000 3.1.x are unanswered. IX44806 IRWIN ITBU drive A250 has problems with the floppy controller 82077SL on ValuePoint Models 6382 and 6384. IX44810 The vi editor replace character function fails on an empty file when LANG=En_US. If the LANG environment variable is not 'C' or default, the vi editor enters into an infinite loop when performing a replace command (i.e., 'r') on an empty line. IX44812 Netmagic needs to reset
mtab and hosts. There was a problem where if the power was lost during
the Phase II part of the network installation, Phase I needed to be rerun.
IX44817 Incorrect plurality for 'line' and 'character' when opening vi. When Lang=En_US and file is greater than 1 line, vi prints the word "line" instead of the word "lines" and if there is more than 1 character in the file, it prints the word "character" instead of the word "characters". IX44823 Add command lsdisp to list displays supported by ix44820. IX44820 added support for multiple heads (adapters and displays) for X11r5 on AIX PS/2. Command lsdisp was added to list available displays on the system. IX44835 Serial device driver hogs IRQ 3 even when not used. The serial device driver attaches IRQ 3 during initialization even when it is not going to being used thus tying up already scarce IRQs. IX44839 X11 8514a with back level model 80 80386 processor. X11r5 fails with 80386 b1 step chip. Changed code to check for a 80386 b1 step chip and output error message. Solution is to specify the -T option when the X-server is linked to force loading at a higher address. IX44840 The current tty driver only supports up to 19200 baud rate. The reference manual for the model 77 says that the serial ports support up to 345,000 bps. It is possible to configure a baud rate of 38400 on models that support up to 345,000 bps, but the devices command does not support this value. After configuring the port and exiting "devices", modify the /etc/ports file and set "speed=38400" in the stanza for the tty that is being used. IX45060 The 0013 release contained a new option that allowed the deleting of non-AIX partitions. Although the new option for deleting non-AIX partitions worked for deleting DOS partitions, it did not work for deleting AIX and OS/2 partitions. IX45063 SCSI does not recognize all disk drives. The SCSI subsystem does not recognize all the hard drives connected to a machine unless they are in consecutive order. In other words the following: hdisk0
SCSI id 6 recognized
IX45087 ThinkPad 750 requires "Set Date and Time" on reboot. After installation of AIX, system complains (during post) about error 163 and 173. The reason is AIX rewrites the existing NVRAM Dynamic Data Areas because it cannot compute the checksum correctly. The new PS/2 systems have 8K NVRAM and the max limit for NVRAM in the existing code is 2K. IX45091 Change the system file to include "athd" stanza for MCA systems. The file "/etc/system" and the file used to build boot diskettes "system.ps2" have to be changed to include the stanza "athd" for the IDE drives. IX45525 Maximum ulimit value is incorrect. When attempting to change ulimit in super user mode, only values up to 524280 are accepted. The limit for filesizes should be 4184303. IX45638 Macintosh MBR causes SCSI lock record to be written. The Macintosh operating system writes the same MBR identification bytes out to removable hard drives that AIX uses to determine if the MBR is present on its hard drives. This dupes the SCSI driver into thinking that the hard drive has an AIX partition on it which then causes it to write out a SCSI lock record on sector 1. This in turn corrupts the data on the Macintosh file system. IX45716 The parallel printer port hangs on a model 6384-F30 Value Point machine. IX45816 The serial device driver is not waiting for the initial CTS before transmission. This will occur even if the minor device number is properly set for flow control. (ie. decimal 32 for flow control enable on tty0). IX45822 The parallel driver for ISA machines hogs both interrupt 7 and interrupt 5 when it should at most reserve interrupt 5. IX45986 Backup and restore will not work on 3450 tape drive. IX46126 ValuePoints and other ISA machines cannot use the parallel port. IX46222 Need to merge multi-block strategy support, etc. into SCSI driver. Merge in new SCSI code which fixes some problems in the multi-block strategy support as well as some other fixes for the SCSI driver. IX46225 Scan codes from 3151 are not correct. A change for a previous APAR broke the scan code mapping. IX46226 AIX writes data to sector 2 on non-AIX removable SCSI DASD. This effectively corrupts the data on non-AIX disks. IX46411 The submodel bytes (0x44 and 0x47) for the server 95 processor complexes needs to be added to machdep.c. Mantaray DMA needs to be turned on also. IX46491 Installing AIX/PS2 on a
PS/2 model 9577 has the following error:
IX45765 Whenever customer tries to back up to IBM 1295 Rewritable Optical Cartridge, part number 645-0162, using backup or CPIO; if the amount of data to be backed up takes more than 1 128 MB cartridge, the machine will panic. IX45721 The minor numbers for SCSI tape are incorrect. The minor numbers should be 0, 16, 32, 48, 64, etc. for rtape0, rtape1, rtape2, rtape3, rtape4, etc. IX46229 Boot disks built using custboot get an NMI error on P5 machines. IX46634 Install breaks on newly formatted hard disk. When installing AIX on a hard disk that has just been formatted, the maint program gets a segmentation violation and goes to single user mode. The changes made by previous defects to allow the deletion of DOS partitions did not include a case for newly formatted disks which will have a value of FF written in all sectors including the master boot record. That problem was corrected by changing the code to not modify the master boot record if it is a newly formatted hard drive. IX47069 Backup and restore in standalone mode fail to backup and restore filesystems. IX47958 Config: ThinkPAD 750 Reported: AIX/PS2 r130 with APAR ix45371 Problem: After installing AIX on a ThinkPAD 750 and rebooting, errors 173 and 163 are reported. The system requires that the date and time be set. When the date and time are set, this corrupts NVRAM so the language and time zone information have to be entered again, which corrupts the date and time......... IX47959 Diagnostic data is being displayed to the console when a tape unit is accessed because a debug flag was left on. IX47961 Support was added
for the 2.88 Mb floppy drive and was released in the 0013 update to AIX
PS/2 1.3.0. The devices that were
created to support the 2.88 Mb floppy; fd0e, fd1e, fd2e, rfd0e,
rfd1e, and rfd2e were given the incorrect permissions.
APAR ABSTRACTS (U400005): IX27779 RTIC card hangs process, and/or hangs the system. IX29685 On a model 90 with model k processor (p/n 64f0198 33mhz/486), ITBU access fails with the following error: Backup medium i/o error: write: input/output error use a
The following error is also seen in osm:
IX29972 grep -v
on an empty file gives a carriage return, but should not return anything.
The following is an example:
IX30077 With a PS/2 80-A31 with OEM EPL plasma monitor, during boot up of AIX PS/2, the text is not easily visible. Code was changed to make default_fg_color and default_bg_color patchable parameters. IX30193 When the small kernel boot diskettes are used to install AIX an error about no usable ports is given when trying to add the 16/4 token ring card. IX31349 When devices is used to
add a CDROM on a 57slc (with a
CDROM drive), the following message is given:
When the node is made for the CDROM and the stanza is added in /etc/system for the CDROM, then the CDROM can be successfully added and used. IX31645 When the devices command displays serial ports associated with dual async and internal modem cards, it show the ports to be on the planar board rather than on backplane cards. IX31684 When minidisks is run on
a model 56SX, the following message is displayed:
IX32329 The backup command allows
the user to use conflicting flags without giving usage error. e.g.:
IX32938 The ITBU tape drive hangs during CPIO on a 25Mhz 486SX. IX33112 Install on model 80 with 1 ESDI drive, 2 SCSI drives, fails to recognize ESDI drive if SCSI boot diskettes are used. IX34244 The ITBU tape drive tries to write to the tape header on read only accesses. IX36506 The first time the installation
disk is inserted (where there are 2 floppy drives configured in the system)
the following message appears:
IX36509 When using "reboot" to bring the system down the message " ...... cannot turn accounting off ......" is displayed. This error occurs if administrative services is not installed. IX36511 When using the ESC-K functionality in a aixterm, the ksh mixes your last history line with the users prompt. If you type CNTL-L, all works fine. IX36514 If the window size of an aixterm is changed while running, the ksh will still think that it is running with the previous window size. I.E. columns and rows stay the same size. IX36517 When attempting to
add pty's via devices the following error message is displayed:
This is because there is a limited amount of buffer space for a single stanza, and the comments in this stanza cause this buffer to be exceeded. A simple workaround for this problem is to move the sysparms: entry further down in the comments. This causes the comments above sysparms: to be associated with the previous stanza and not the sysparms stanza. IX36519 If an installt tape is used to install one lpp and then it is asked to install it again, it will do so. IX36520 The ITBU driver updates the header on tapes even if only reading the tape. If the tape has the write protect tab on, on close, the driver displays an error writing the header. IX36527 When chparm nodename= <name> is used to change the machine name, the program will fix up many things, but it does not fix the sendmail.cf file. IX36528 The ksh 'set' command hangs when piped to pg or more. IX36538 In /etc/ezcustom the change defaults screen has the option to change the source nvramcfg.info file. This option does not accept the new path. IX36565 Write-protected diskettes are not detected when tar, dd, or backup are requested to write to a diskette. The tar command functions as though it wrote to the diskette (but did not). The backup command also functions as though it wrote to the diskette, but hangs. The dd command hangs and continually accesses the diskette drive. IX36582 When devices is used to add a SCSI tape device, it shows that an 8mm tape drive is being added. This should say any SCSI tape drive; 8mm, 1/4", data tech. etc... IX36595 If a program is created that includes mbcs.h, cflow will coredump. IX36597 In vi, screen updates are garbled when tabstops are set to 4 and inserts are performed on a line. IX36598 Minidisks fails on second drive added after installation on an AT bus system. Should be checked out on both IDE and ESDI drives. IX36599 IDE driver will not work with other disk drivers. The IDE disk driver for ISA bus machines does not maintain certain tables which allow multiple types of disk adapters to be active in the system at the same time. IX36601 The devices utility will not allow addition on second non-DASD SCSI device. When attempting to add a second non-DASD SCSI device to the same SCSI card, devices decides that the port is already in use, and cannot have any more devices attached to it. IX36603 The header file pos.h incorrectly includes machinfo.h. IX36604 When the floppy drive is accessed simultaneously by an AIX user and a DOS user (under DOS merge) the system hangs. |