On 8/20/2016 10:35 PM, Jerry Weiss wrote:
On Aug 20, 2016, at 10:27 AM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
When I started this I hadn't put the RQDX2 back in, so I had only one UDA
controller and that's how I saw the DHV11 show up. When I put the RQDX2 back
in that's when I lost the DHV11.
I did the conf
> On Aug 20, 2016, at 10:27 AM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
>>
>
> When I started this I hadn't put the RQDX2 back in, so I had only one UDA
> controller and that's how I saw the DHV11 show up. When I put the RQDX2 back
> in that's when I lost the DHV11.
>
> I did the configure from VMS 5.5, it wa
On 8/19/2016 6:49 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
Device,Number? dhv11,1
Device,Number? tqk50,1
Device,Number? rqdx3,1
Device,Number? exit
Address/Vector Assignments
-772150/154 RQDX3
-774500/260 TQK50
-760440/300 DHV11
configure
Enter device configuration, HELP, or EXIT
Device,Number? dhv11,1
Device,
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
>
> It is the World Box, BA123 and I have hardware manuals that came with the
> MVII.
> When I got it this was the configuration:
> Slot 1 - CPU
> Slot 2 - Memory
> Slot 3 - Bus Grant Card M9047
> Slot 4 - DHV11
> Slot 5 - TQK50 (upper) M9047
On 8/19/2016 4:55 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
Yes, it is an MSCP disk controller, and it seems to work OK. I boot
from it and the CSR is at the standard 1st address, it is connected
to a SCSI2SD board.
I think you have a good point about CSR addresses. There is a
CONFIGURE tool that tells y
On 08/19/2016 12:36 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
The MicroVax II is about 30 years old, should I suspect
the backplane? How do you clean it? Should I try another
CPU card?
My cobbled-together uVAX-II ran continuously from 1986 to
2007. Sometime in the late 1990s, it started to get flaky.
I
On 8/19/2016 12:19 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Aug 19, 2016, at 11:58 AM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
...
It is the World Box, BA123 and I have hardware manuals that came with the MVII.
When I got it this was the configuration:
Slot 1 - CPU
Slot 2 - Memory
Slot 3 - Bus Grant Card M9047
Slot 4 - DHV11
Yes, it is an MSCP disk controller, and it seems to work OK. I boot from it
and the CSR is at the standard 1st address, it is connected to a SCSI2SD board.
I think you have a good point about CSR addresses. There is a CONFIGURE tool
that tells you what set the addresses to for a particular
> On Aug 19, 2016, at 2:55 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
>
> On 8/19/2016 12:19 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>>> On Aug 19, 2016, at 11:58 AM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
>>>
...
>>> It is the World Box, BA123 and I have hardware manuals that came with the
>>> MVII.
>>> When I got it this was the config
On 8/18/2016 5:12 PM, Adrian Graham wrote:
On 18/08/2016 04:37, "Douglas Taylor" wrote:
I've brought up a MicroVax II and installed VMS 5.5-2 on a SCSI2SD disk
and it is fun to work with. (I also installed openvms 7.2 without much
drama)
The problem I am having is that is has a TK50 tape dri
On 8/19/2016 6:04 AM, Peter Coghlan wrote:
[snip]
Device Device Error
Name Status Count
MPA0: Offline 0
PTA0: Online 1
PUA0: Online 1
PUB0:
> On Aug 19, 2016, at 11:58 AM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
>
>> ...
> It is the World Box, BA123 and I have hardware manuals that came with the
> MVII.
> When I got it this was the configuration:
> Slot 1 - CPU
> Slot 2 - Memory
> Slot 3 - Bus Grant Card M9047
> Slot 4 - DHV11
> Slot 5 - TQK50 (upp
On 19/08/2016 09:56, "Peter Coghlan" wrote:
>>>
>>> Does Autogen recognize new hardware?
>>>
>> Yes, definitely. Some older devices have switches (or even
>> soldered jumpers) to set the CSR address. If some of these
>> are wrong, it could mess up the automatic address assignment
>> of later
>
> Does Autogen recognize new hardware?
>
Yes, definitely. Some older devices have switches (or even
soldered jumpers) to set the CSR address. If some of these
are wrong, it could mess up the automatic address assignment
of later MSCP hardware.
Not exactly.
VMS automatically looks for a
> On Aug 18, 2016, at 4:39 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>
>> From: Paul Koning
>
>> A lot of Unibus/Qbus devices have "floating CSRs" which means they
>> don't have fixed address assignments. Instead, the correct address is
>> based on a set of rules, which puts devices in an ordered list and
>> ass
[snip]
Device Device Error
Name Status Count
MPA0: Offline 0
PTA0: Online 1
PUA0: Online 1
PUB0: Online 1
I sw
On 08/17/2016 10:37 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
I've brought up a MicroVax II and installed VMS 5.5-2 on a
SCSI2SD disk and it is fun to work with. (I also
installed openvms 7.2 without much drama)
The problem I am having is that is has a TK50 tape drive
and controller, but it never has shown
On Aug 17, 2016, at 10:37 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
>
> I've brought up a MicroVax II and installed VMS 5.5-2 on a SCSI2SD disk and
> it is fun to work with. (I also installed openvms 7.2 without much drama)
>
> The problem I am having is that is has a TK50 tape drive and controller, but
> it
On 18/08/2016 04:37, "Douglas Taylor" wrote:
> I've brought up a MicroVax II and installed VMS 5.5-2 on a SCSI2SD disk
> and it is fun to work with. (I also installed openvms 7.2 without much
> drama)
>
> The problem I am having is that is has a TK50 tape drive and controller,
> but it never ha
On 8/18/2016 4:39 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> From: Paul Koning
> A lot of Unibus/Qbus devices have "floating CSRs" which means they
> don't have fixed address assignments. Instead, the correct address is
> based on a set of rules, which puts devices in an ordered list and
On 08/18/2016 03:39 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> From: Paul Koning
> A lot of Unibus/Qbus devices have "floating CSRs" which means they
> don't have fixed address assignments. Instead, the correct address is
> based on a set of rules, which puts devices in an ordered list and
> From: Paul Koning
> A lot of Unibus/Qbus devices have "floating CSRs" which means they
> don't have fixed address assignments. Instead, the correct address is
> based on a set of rules, which puts devices in an ordered list and
> assigns addresses in sequence. .. If you get t
> On Aug 17, 2016, at 11:37 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
>
> I've brought up a MicroVax II and installed VMS 5.5-2 on a SCSI2SD disk and
> it is fun to work with. (I also installed openvms 7.2 without much drama)
>
> The problem I am having is that is has a TK50 tape drive and controller, but
>
I've brought up a MicroVax II and installed VMS 5.5-2 on a SCSI2SD disk
and it is fun to work with. (I also installed openvms 7.2 without much
drama)
The problem I am having is that is has a TK50 tape drive and controller,
but it never has shown up in the device list. I even swapped in a
di
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