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#PRO350 debugging helps?

    08-Sep-90 02:18:27
Sb: #PRO350 debugging helps?
Fm: george cornelius 72060,646
To: all
I have a Pro/350 that crashes intermittently and could use some help finding tools to track the problem down. I am already working on the simple hardware-level approaches (remove boards and try again; power-supply fan; power-supply cable), but it would sure be nice if we could do the kinds of things we used to do on 11M-Plus: crash dumps, XDT, or examining memory from the console front panel or ODT. None of these are present on the Pro – so how does anybody resolve problems without DEC around to perform their magic? Sources of information other than the standard Pro and Pro/Toolkit documentation sets – or just tips that would be useful for someone who's well-versed on 11M/M+ internals but completely unfamiliar with the Pro – would be greatly appreciated. I've also posed this question in the PDP11 conference, but thought I'd get more exposure here.