On 01/27/2018 04:02 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 4:34 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk
<cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
Success!
Congratulations!
ish... :-)
It seems that my DHV11 board is bad - the system stalls on the PSU tests
with it plugged in.
The TK50 drive sits there with a rapidly-flashing light (I saw someone
saying that's likely the tape feed band or just dirty heads, so it might be
fixable).
The RD53 drive... hmm. I tried powering it without it plugged in, just to
see if it at least sounded healthy; it spun up to a "sensible-sounding"
speed for maybe 15 seconds, then spun down again. I tried again, and it
remained spun-up, but the initial spin-down was hardly encouraging.
With the drive actually hooked up to the controller, I'm getting "?54
RETRY" messages when it's trying to boot - however, I'm not entirely sure
what device it's trying to boot from! Maybe it's attempting the TK50, or
via Ethernet. I still need to read up on that and work out how to force it
to attempt a disk boot.
One other issue is that the RD53 was in the second bay (and hooked up to
the associated cables) - it makes me wonder if it was just an auxiliary
disk, and the system originally had another drive in the first bay
(containing actual OS) which has been removed.
Just be sure to follow the grant chain
Yup, I *think* I've got my head around how that works! (along with the
special slots for CPU/RAM)
cheers
Jules
