[Info-vax] DE500 and hardware version

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote 2013-01-03 19:37:
> In article <kc4grs$75a$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>> 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.
> lose this -------------------^--- and this ---^
>
>>
>> This works :
>>
>> $ write sys$output f$getdvi( "ewa0:", "DEVICE_TYPE_NAME" )
>> BCM5703
>> $
>
> On an Alpha DS10, this reports:
>
> $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$getdvi("EWA0","ADAPTER_IDENT")
> DE504-BA (quad Fast Ethernet)
>
> ..and on an Integrity rx2600 it reports:
>
> $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$getdvi("EWA0","ADAPTER_IDENT")
> BCM5701 LOM (Gigabit Ethernet)
>
> $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$getdvi("EIA0","ADAPTER_IDENT")
> Intel 82557 LOM (Fast Ethernet)
>

Sorry, I should have mentioned that the "BCM5703" output
is from my Alpha DS25. With "adapter_ident" it says :

$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$getdvi("EWA0","ADAPTER_IDENT")
BCM5703 LOM (Gigabit Ethernet)

Didn't knew I had Gigabit-Ether, but I only have 100 Mb
network equipment anyway... :-)

Jan-Erik.