[Info-vax] DE500 and hardware version

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Robert A. Brooks wrote 2013-01-03 18:45:
> On 1/3/2013 1:28 AM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
>> 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.  What I see is
>>
>> 02000030
>> 02000041
>>
>> The latter is on a machine at 100 FD and the former on those at 10 HD.
>>
>> Can 02000030 do better than 10 HD?
>
> What's the output of
>
> $ write sys$output f$fgetdvi( <ethernet devnam>, "adapater_ident" )
>
>
>                                   -- Rob
>


On what version of VMS does that work?
Do you have some example output from that command?
And is it different then SHO DEV <ethernet devnam> /FULL?

On my 8.4 Alpha, neither "f$fgetdvi" or "adapater_ident" works.

This works :

$ write sys$output f$getdvi( "ewa0:", "DEVICE_TYPE_NAME" )
BCM5703
$