[Info-vax] DE500 and hardware version

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 1/3/2013 1:07 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article <kc4g39$goq$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, "Robert A. Brooks"
> <rab at hp.com> writes:
>
>> 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" )
>
> Aahhh, another undocumented item on 7.3-2.  How many undocumented items
> are there?

(Sorry for the multiple typos in the example).

There are likely many undocumented $GETDVI item codes on a V7.3-2 
system.  Any of the LAN_* item codes should be there, as well as an 
enhancement to $ SHOW DEV /FULL for LAN devices (both template and 
protocol-specific).  That enhancement uses the new LAN item codes
to grab the needed information.

For ADAPTER_IDENT, the string returned is the same one as CLUE CONFIG
(I grabbed some of the existing code from there).  That string is pulled 
from sys$system:sys$config.dat, which is read into memory
at startup or in response to a SYSMAN IO AUTOCONFIG command.

An enhancement that I never got to implement would be to add the string
returned from ADAPTER_IDENT to the $ SHOW DEVICE /FULL display for any
adapters.

                       -- Rob