[Info-vax] DE500 and hardware version

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-03 06:28:39 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply said:

> In contrast to my recent remark (I was looking for a name, not a
> number), ANAL/SYS does show the hardware version for the DE500, and it
> it differs between two types of machine.

Yeah, because the idiot that wrote that section of the FAQ went to the 
effort of listing and then displaying the hardware codes just for 
giggles, and clearly didn't bother with the incredibly easy secret way 
to get the text names of the devices.

> What I see is
> 
> 02000030

DE500-BA

> 02000041

That looks to be an integrated DE500, or a "newer" variant of the 
DE500.  I find that code with the on-board NIC in an AlphaStation 
XP1000 box, for instance: <http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1805>

> The latter is on a machine at 100 FD and the former on those at 10 HD.
> 
> Can 02000030 do better than 10 HD?

DE500 is a Fast Ethernet controller, so — when set up per the doc in 
that section of the FAQ, and given a functional switch — yes.

As for your root question, pull the boards and identify them.  Also 
determine if that second 02000041 NIC is an integrated NIC or if it's 
an add-on.

It's these sorts of details with VMS that annoy me — half-assed, 
unfinished, cryptic and tools and displays and mechanisms that are 
generally in need of nuking and paving.


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