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*~ CORVUS Corvus Systems, Inc. 2100 Corvus Drive San Jose, California 95124 (408) 559-7000 Telex 278976 20 August 1984 Dear Service Center, There is a subtle, but very important, change to the 'Latest ROM Releases' and the 'Current Software and Firmware Releases' in this Update; a bold typeface is used to denote new items and italics to denote changes from the previous list. The highlighting of changes to the lists is a direct response to a request by a Service Center. We appreciate the suggestion and remind you that you may send your comments or suggestions for the update to the Customer Service Update Editor. There are several 'Hot' items this month. Pages 6 and 12 describe software upgrades available from customer Service. Ordering information on the new Extended Limited warranties and an addendum to the Customer Service Price List are two other items which should be of special interest to you. In next month's issue there will be some tips on the Utility and Printer Server operation. A note here: When using the Printer Server from an OmniDrive, it is necessary to initialize Pipes and spool a file prior to turning on the Printer Server. If this is not done, the Printer Server may not find the pipes area. ,a~s, cal George lmarandos Product Support Manager ,... ** CORVUS Corvus Systems, Inc. 2100 Corvus Drive San Jose, California 95124 (408) 559-7000 Telex 278976 CUSTOMER SERVICE UPDATE 4.8 Letter from George Amarandos Latest ROM Releases Current Software and Firmware Releases DEC Rainbo'w Apple IIIIIe Utility Server IBM XT Mirror Drive and Server Names and Passwords Concept Buffered Floppy Interface Cards Shugart Drives with IBM PCs and Zenith 150s New Extended Limited Warranty Available Customer Service Price List Addendum 20 AUGUST 1984 1 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 *: C:ORVUS Corvus Systems, Inc. 2100 Corvus Drive San Jose, California 95124 (408) 559-7000 Telex 278976 20 AUGUST 1984 UPDATE VOLUME 4.8 LATEST ROM RELEASES Note: Additions to the July 1984list are in bold face type. Changes to the July 1984 list are in italics. Position CONTROLl.ER ROMS OmniDriveOmniDrive-Macintosh ROM Code Firmware Comments Version Version FODR1.6 6801 MCV V4 V24 ODCIOO T9B Boot PROM 6801 MCU Logic Array U4 U24 Ul5 MOD120 T9B MCPALI V62 C7.63 18.4AP V31 C7.58 C8.58 18.4AP V32' F2 H2 C3.22 C4.22 18.4AP VI05 VI03 BKB280 T9.B FBNK4.3 Boot PROM H·· Series Drives 6-MB Revision B Drives lIl20-MB Revision B Drives The Bank On Diagnostic diskette OMNINET PERIPHERALS Boot PROM V3 6801 MCV VI DS9BID T9.B For use with Bank and Multiple Servers Boot PROM V3 VI DS18.A 8A For use with Bank 6801 MCV U3 VI DS8A.A 8A For use with H-Series drives wlo Bank Boot PROM 6801 MCU U27 U15 CRB120S T9.B Boot PROM V15 V5 AT 1.8 8A For use with Canst I U15 U5 ATB310 For use with Canst II 6801 MCV Apple III 6801 MCV V5 DEC Rainbow EXT 6801 PROM Disk Server Disk Server 6801 MCV Disk Server Utility Server Boot PROM TRANSPORTER ROMS Apple II 6801 MCV Apple II Boot PROM T9.B 8A 6801 MCV V16 V7 EXT9B 8A IBMPCIXT Boot PROM 6801 MCU U36 U9 ITB150S 8A TI Professional Boot PROM 6801 MCU U36 U9 TTB160 8A Zenith Z100 6801 MCV U8 1 8A ROM Code Position Version UIO UI2 UIO A4.7 IFBI50S Firmware Version Comments JlNTERFACE ROMS Apple lIllIe IBMPc/XT Concept A4.7 CONCEPT Boot PROMs Mapper PROM U706 U7II CCBO.7L CCBO.7H Rev A Processor U706 U710 CCB1.7L CCB1.7H Rev B Processor U309 CMO.4A U24 M.BC240 MISCELLANEOUS IBM XT Mirror Card 2 *** CORVUS Corvus Systems, Inc. 2100 Corvus Drive San Jose, California 95124 (408) 559-7000 Telex 278976 20 AUGUST 1984 UPDATE VOLUME 4.8 CURRENT SOFTWARE AND FIRMWARE RELEASES Note: Additions to the July 1984list are in bold face type. Changes to the July 1984list are in italics. Computer Apple Wile Constellation II ApplellJlle Constellation I Diskette Firmware Version Software Date Comments FODR1.5 18.5 PascaI1.1/1.2 VOl 1 30 Apr84 FODR1.5 18.5 DOS3.3 Vol 1 &2 30 Apr84 FODR1.6 18.6 CP/M Vol1 &3 Vol 2 30 Apr84 25 Jun84 FODR1.5 18.5 ProDOS Vol 1 &2 14 Jun84 ConstUtils Vol 1 &4 Vo12&3 25 Jun84 4 Jul84 Printer Server Bank 11 Jun84 20 May 84 BASIC Pascal Vol 1 PascalVol2 Pascal Diag CP/M CP/M 2.2 Pascal 1.1 Constellation BASIC Pascal Remote Mirror Utility Server Disketteshare DOS Utilities Network Server 21 22 21 22 18.4AP Nov82 Dec 82 Nov82 Dec82 Firmware versions given are the lowest acceptable version for use with that operating system All Drives except OmniDrive 12 Jan83 12 Jan83 21 Nov82 21 Nov82 3 Dec82 30 Sep83 22 Aug83 22 Aug83 Apple III 18.4AP CORII11 CORI1l2 CORII13 11 Mar83 11 Mar83 11 Mar 83 All Drives except OmniDrive Atari800 18.3 Vol 1 &2 14 Jan83 All Drives except OmniDrive 3 Computer Diskette Firmware Version Software Date Comments Concept 8" 18.4AP FBOOT FSYSGEN FDIAG FCCSYS1 FCCSYS2 FCCSYS3 FCCSYS4 FPSYS FPASCAL FFORTRN FLGICLC FEDWORD FCCLIB FISYS1 FISYS2 FGRAPH CP/M Emulator CP/M Master Printer Server Bank Volume 1 Bank Volume 2 'C' Compiler BASIC FPAINT 1 Feb84 21 Mar84 1 Feb 84 21 Mar84 1 Feb84 1 Feb84 1 Feb84 1 Feb84 15 Feb84 15 Feb84 1 Feb84 1 Feb84 15 Feb84 1 Feb84 1 Feb84 1 Feb84 21 Jun83 20 Jun 83 30 Sep83 1 Feb84 1 Feb84 2 Jan84 2 Jan84 11 Dec83 All Drives Concept 5.25" 18.4AP FBOOT FCCSYS1 FCCSYS2 FPSYS FPASCAL FFORTRN FLGICLC FISYS FGRAPH FPAINT Bank 'C' Compiler BASIC 1 Feb84 1 Feb84 1 Feb84 1 Feb84 1 Feb84 1 Feb84 1 Feb84 1 Feb84 1 Feb84 11 Dec83 1 Feb84 2 Jan84 2 Jan84 All Drives DECLSI-11 (Flat-Cable Only) CFLSI1.0 Vol 1 of 1 22 Aug 83 DEC Robin 17.3 Vol 1 Vol2 15 Nov 82 13 Apr83 Revision B Drives DEC Robin 18.4 Vol1 Vol2 7 Dec 82 15 Nov 82 H-Series Drives DEC Rainbow CP/M 86/80 FODR1.4 Vol 1 &2 Vol3 24 May 84 22 Jun84 Omninet Only All Drives Vol 1 20 Apr84 Omninet Only All Drives MS-DOS 2.0 Printer Server 2 Nov 84 IBMPC/XT DOS 2.)( (Multiple Server Release) FODR1.4 Vol 1 &2 Vo/3 Vol 4 23 Mar84 27 Apr84 17 Apr84 All Drives IBMPC/XT DOS 2.)( 18.4AP VoI1,2&5 Vol3 Vol4 2 Aug 83 14 Sep83 6 Dec83 All Drives except OmniDrive IBMPC/XT DOS 1.1 18.4AP Vol1 &2 Vo13&4 22 Jul83 5 Aug 83 All Drives except OmniDrive 4 Computer Diskette Firmware Version Comments Software Date IBM PC/XT Printer Server XT Mirror Bank Diag Transfer Utils 27 20 10 10 IBM XT OmniShare Vo11-3 25 Jun84 Mar84 Jan84 Feb84 Feb84 DOS 1.1 or 2.X NEC 17.3 Vol1 Vol2 15 Nov 82 1 Mar82 Revision B Drives NEC 18.4 Vol1 Vol2 7 Dec 82 15 Nov82 H-Series Drives Osborne 17.3 Vol1 &3 Vo12&4 17 Jan 83 29 Jul82 Revision B Drives Osborne 18.4 Vol1 &3 Vo12&4 11 Jan 83 15 Nov83 H-Series Drives S-100 CP/M2.2 17.3 Vol1 Vol2 30 Oet82 13 Apr82 Revision B Drives S·100 CP/M2.2 18.4 Vol1 Vol2 7 Dec 82 29 Oct82 H-Series Drives Sony 18.3 Vol1 &2 Mirror Utility 2 Nov 82 10 Jun 83 H-Series Drives TI Professional FODR1.4 18.4AP Vol 1, 2. &2A Vol 3 Vol 4 Printer Server 26 27 17 24 All Drives TRS-80 Modell 18.4 Vol 1 &2 Vol3 21 Jul82 17 Jan83 All Drives except OmniDrive TRS-80 Modell! 17.3 Vol 1 &2 15 Nov 82 Revision B Drives TRS-80 Modell! 18.4 Vol 1 Vol2 7 Dec 82 15 Nov 82 H-Series Drives TRS-80 Model III 18.4 Vol 1 &2 Vol3 21 Jul82 17 Jan 83 All Drives except OmniDrive Xerox 820 5.25" 18.4 Vol1 &3 Vo12&4 15 Nov 82 17 Feb82 Revision B Drives Xerox 820 8" 18.4 Vol 1 Vol2 15 Nov 82 17 Feb 82 Revision B Drives Xerox 820 5.25" 18.4 Vol 1-4 15 Nov82 H-Series Drives Xerox 820 8" 18.4 Vol 1 &2 15 Nov 82 H-Series Drives ZenithZ89 17.3 Vol1 Vol 2·4 15 Nov 82 17 Feb82 Revision B Drives ZenithZ89 18.4 Vol1 Vol 2-4 7 Dec82 15 Nov 82 H-5eries Drives ZenithZ90 17.3 Vol1 Vol2 15 Nov 82 18May82 Revision B Drives ZenithZ90 18.4 Vol1 Vol2 7 Dec82 15 Nov 82 H-Series Drives ZenithZ100 CP/M 18.4AP Vol 1 &4 Vo12&28 Vol 3 Vo15& 6 Printer Server 5 Apr84 22 Mar84 30 Mar84 20 Apr84 2 May 84 Omninet Only All Drives 5 Mar84 Apr84 Apr84 Apr84 *; CORVUS Corvus Systems, Inc. 2100 Corvus Drive San Jose, California 95124 (408) 559-7000 Telex 278976 20 AUGUST 1984 UPDATE VOLUME 4.8 DEC RAINBOW The 24 May 1984 release of utilities for the DEC Rainbow contains errors in two areas: I) A problem has been discovered when using the Mirror program to restore an image. The program will continue to run and never return to indicate a successful restore. 2) The Omninet driver may occassionally repon erroneous transmission failures. These will appear to the user as OInninet Errors 80, 82, or 83. Both items have been corrected with the release of the Omninet driver. A single diskette is availab!C' from Customer Service at no charge. Specify Part Number 9000-00072-00 when ordering. A separate item to note concerning the 24 May release of DEC Rainbow MS-DOS utilities: This release is intended for Omninet installation; although flat cable operation may work, it is not supported by Corvus. 6 **"* CoRVUS Corvus Systems, Inc. 2100 Corvus Drive San Jose, California 95124 (408) 559-7000 Telex 278976 UPDATE VOLUME 4.8 20 AUGUST 1984 APPLE lIllIe When installing Constellation II on the Apple lIllIe, operating systems (Le. DOS 3.3 or Pascal) are added after the drive has been "Sysgen-ed" for Constellation II use. If when installing an operating system the "Modify Existing Drive" option does not allow the addition of the four Apple operating systems (Le. the options are not displayed), the Transponer card is probably not installed in slot 6 per the instructions in the System Generation Guide. or the floppy interface card is not in slot 4. Make the appropriate slot corrections and re-boot as A2MGR to install the desired operating system. If the message "Corvus Volume Table Not Found" appears, the problem may be a non-standard floppy controller or drive. When using The Bank in conjunction with the Apple II under Constellation II, note that to format a tape the Transponer card must be in slot 7. Attempting to use any other slot will cause the Apple to jump into the machine language monitor when format is selected. 7 *' ** CORVUS Corvus Systems, Inc. 2100 Corvus Drive San Jose, California 95124 (408) 559-7000 Telex 278976 20 AUGUST 1984 UPDATE VOLUME 4.8 UTILITY SERVER This month two issues will be addressed concerning the Utility Server. One involves difficulty installing the Printer Server software; the other, setting the time and date. Numerous calls have been received from customers who are receiving Pascal "I/O Error #8" when attempting to install the Printer Server software. Failing to correctly create the PSERVER volume is normally the cause of this error. Instructions for creating the PSERVER volume can be found on page 6 of the Utility Server Manager's Guide; Constellation II Printer Server (7100-04910). Failure to correctly mount the PSERVER volume will result in the error message "I/O Error #9" when attempting to "Update Utilities" from the Maintenance Manager. The error appears when the update program fails to find either the Printer Server distribution diskette in the first available floppy drive or the PSERVER volume is not on the required mount unit. Instructions are given in step 5 on page 9 of the above mentioned Utility Server Manager's Guide. The correct unit to mount volume PSERVER on by computer type is: Apple II/IIe 11 DEC Rainbow 9 10 IBM PCIXT Texas Instruments Professional 10 Zenith Z100 10 As the PSERVER volume must be mounted on the unit specified above, the availability of that unit should be ascertained prior to mounting the volume. List the mounted volumes, and remount any volume cUlTently mounted to the desired PSERVER unit. Some users have reported difficulty in setting the time and date when using the Time Service portion of the Utility Server Manager software. In most cases the difficulty was caused by the incorrect setting of a DIP switch within the Utility Server. Note that when position 8 of the DIP switch is "OFF" the time and date will be loaded from the disk drive at power-on. When position 8 is "ON" the time and date will be loaded from the internal clock chip. It is recommended that once the time and date are loaded initially to the Utility Server, that position 8 be turned "ON" and that the server be left on to retain the current time and date. 8 ';r ** CORVIJS Corvus Systems, Inc. 2100 Corvus Drive San Jose, California 95124 (408) 559-7000 Telex 278976 20 AUGUST 1984 UPDATE VOLUME 4.8 IBM XT MIRROR Some users have reported that when attempting to back-up using the XT Mirror card for the first time the computer "hangs~' The problem has been traced to the incorrect setting of jumper "E I " on the XT Mirror card. (The jumper is located on the lower portion of the card between ICs U I 9 and U20). This jumper should be installed either on position A or position B, but not both. A number of cards were shipped from Corvus with both positions jumpered. For proper operation these cards should be checked before use. 9 ... ** CoRVUS Corvus Systems, Inc. 2100 Corvus Drive San Jose, California 95124 (408) 559-7000 Telex 278976 UPDATE VOLUME 4.8 20 AUGUST 1984 DRIVE AND SERVER NAMES AND PASSWORDS The April 1984 Service Update detailed a procedure to alter the names and passwords of both the disk server and disk drive. Following the use of the FIXIT program to modify drive or server names, or passwords, the users' attributes must be modified using Constellation II utilities to reflect the changes made. It should be noted that with the release of multiple server software an additional step is now required to specify the "Home Server:' 10 lir ** CoRVUS Corvus Systems, Inc. 2100 Corvus Drive San Jose, California 95124 (408) 559-7000 Telex 278976 20 AUGUST 1984 UPDATE VOLUME 4.8 CONCEPT BUFFERED FLOPPY INTERFACE CARDS Several calls have been received from customers who have removed jumpers which are installed on the buffered floppy interface and subsequently could not use the interface card. The correct jumper settings are as follows: 5 114" Double Sided Drive EI - B & C E3 E5 E7 - Jumpered Jumpered Jumpered EIO -- B & C EII--B&C 8" Double Sided Drive EI - A & B E2 E5 E6 - Jumpered Jumpered Jumpered EIO--A&B 11 .: CORVUS Corvus Systems, Inc. 2100 Corvus Drive San Jose, California 95124 (408) 559-7000 Telex 278976 20 AUGUST 1984 UPDATE VOLUME 4.8 SHUGART DRIVES WITH IBM PC'S AND ZENITH 150'S IBM PC and Zenith 150 users with Shugart floppy disk drives have been unable to initialize their Corvus disk drives. This is the result of a slower step rate used by Shugart. To rectify this problem, a new set of CORMS diskettes has been released. These are CORMS21 and CORMS22, part number 9000-0070-00. This 3 August release is available through Customer Service as a no-charge upgrade to users who have previously purchased this Corvus software. 12 Corvus Systems, Inc. 2100 Corvus Drive San Jose, California 95124 (408) 559-7000 Telex 278976 UPDATE VOLUME 4.8 20 AUGUST 1984 NEW EXTENDED LIMITED WARRANTY AVAILABLE A new Extended Limited Warranty package is available (United States only). All Corvus products may be covered, and at more attractive prices. Coverage may be purchased for a period of 6 or 24 months and is renewable; there is no longer a 30-month limitation on warranty coverage. Each Warranty Agreement can be tailored to the individual customer's needs which eliminates the need to stock product-specific warranties. Further details on the new Extended Limited Warranty (Part Number 7100-06531-01) are available from Corvus Customer Service Administration at 408-559-5229. 13 *; CORVUS Corvus Systems, Inc. 2100 Corvus Drive San Jose, California 95124 (408) 559-7000 Telex 278976 20 AUGUST 1984 UPDATE VOLUME 4.8 CUSTOMER SERVICE PRICE LIST ADDENDUM The prices below are additions or changes to the "Corvus Customer Service Administration Manual Supplement:' June 1984, Part Number 7100-06176-0 I. Price changes shall be effective 20 September 1984. Customer Service Retail Price Schedule Description H-Series Power Supply SNA Gateway Parts NCPanel Power Supply Memory Board Controller Processor PCA Part Number Retail Dealer Service 8010-09322 235.00 188.00 164.55 C 8010-08091 8010-08522 8010-08737 8010-10350 8010-10 III 82.00 355.00 1645.00 290.00 835.00 65.60 284.00 1316.00 232.00 668.00 57.45 248.50 1151.50 203.00 584.50 A A A A A Customer Service Exchange Price Schedule Description Non-Etched Monitor SNA Gateway Parts NCPanel Power Supply Memory Board Controller Processor PCA C - Price Change A-Newltem Part Number Retail Dealer Service 8010-08082 805.00 644.00 563.50 8010-08091 8010-08522 8010-08737 8010-10350 8010-10111 60.00 265.00 1234.00 215.00 630.00 48.00 212.00 988.00 172.00 504.00 42.00 185.50 863.80 150.50 441.00 14 C A A A A A
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