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System Management Release Notes

5.5 OpenVMS Galaxy Version 7.3

5.5.5 MOP Booting Restrictions

V7.2

In an OpenVMS Galaxy computing environment, MOP (Maintenance Operations

Protocol) Booting is only supported on Instance 0. This restriction will be

removed in a future release.

5.5.6 Restriction on KFMSB and CIXCD Adapters in Galaxy Conﬁgurations

Permanent Restriction

Due to ﬁrmware addressing limitations on driver-adapter control data structures,

KFMSB and CIXCD adapters can only be used on hardware partitions based at

physical address (PA) = 0. In OpenVMS Galaxy conﬁgurations, this restricts their

use to Instance 0.

5.6 LAN ATM (Alpha Only)

This section contains a release note pertaining to the local area network (LAN)

asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) software.

5.6.1 Requirements/Restrictions Using DAPBA/DAPCA Adapters for LAN

Emulation over ATM (Alpha Only)

V7.3

The DAPBA (155 Mb/s) and the DAPCA (622 Mb/s) are ATM adapters for PCI-bus

systems that are supported by SYS$HWDRIVER4.EXE.

Both adapters require a great deal of non-paged pool, and therefore, care should

be taken when conﬁguring them. For each DAPBA, Compaq recommends

increasing the SYSGEN parameter NPAGEVIR by 3000000. For each DAPCA,

Compaq recommends increasing NPAGEVIR by 6000000. To do this, add the

ADD_NPAGEVIR parameter to MODPARAMS.DAT and then run AUTOGEN.

For example, add the following command to MODPARAMS.DAT on a system with

two DAPBAs and one DAPCA:

ADD_NPAGEVIR = 12000000

The following restrictions apply to the DAPBA and DAPCA adapters:

• The adapter cannot be located on a PCI bus that is located behind a PCI-to-

PCI bridge.

• Classical IP is not supported.

5.7 Lock Manager

This section contains notes pertaining to the lock manager.

5.7.1 Lock Manager System Parameter Renamed (Alpha Only)

V7.3

The OpenVMS Performance Management incorrectly refers to the LOCKMGR_

CPU system parameter in its discussion of the Dedicated CPU lock manager.

The LOCKMGR_CPU system parameter name has been changed to LCKMGR_

CPUID.

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