[Simh] Ultrix 4.0 and DEQNA-LOCK

[Johnny Billquist]

Hi.

On 2016-08-30 04:11, Cory Smelosky wrote:
> All,
>
> I am currently fighting with Ultrix 4.0 and I am trying to find out if
> it's an Ultrix bug or a SIMH bug... ;)
>
> I am setting XQ MODE to DELQA/DELQA-T and DEQNALOCK to off, confirming
> it is in DELQA mode.
> however in dmesg:
>
> qe0 at uba0 csr 174440 vec 764, ipl 17
> qe0: DEC DELQA Ethernet Interface DEQNA-lock Mode, hardware address
> 08:00:2b:e5:b1:c1
> and it has been changed to operating in DENQA mode as per SHOW XQ!
>
> I have a few questions:
> 1). How is Ultrix doing this?
> 2). Should it be doing this?
> 3). Is there a way to make it not do this?

Not sure there are any bugs here. Ultrix might just change it to run in 
DEQNA mode. Maybe because it didnät have a driver for running it in 
DELQA mode in 4.0? Just guessing here, but it don't look to me as if 
there actually is a bug anywhere.

	Johnny