Good grief what a week this has been, but I finally got the PDP-11 I'm
trying to put together to boot off of a ESDI harddrive. Not the processor
or disk controller I was expecting, for all that goes not the version of
RSX-11M I was expecting, but it's up and running.
At the moment it is running a PDP-11/23+ instead of the /73, has a RLV12 in
it, and is missing basically all the boards. However, tomorrow I'm hoping
to basically get the hardware back into the configuration that I want.
I had two problems. First, for some reason I couldn't get RSX11M to like
the Webster WQESD controller I was trying to use, so I switched to a Emulex
QD21, and was able to load the TK50 onto the Harddrive. But it wouldn't
boot once I got that done last night. Foolish me thinking it wasn't
bootable drug a RL02 drive and controller into the house tonite :^( Turns
out that I'd gotten the DIP switches mixed up <ARGHHH> Once I had them
right (and the system totally rearranged) it booted off DU0: despite my
wanting to go from DL0: :^)
If work doesn't interfere tomorrow night, I'm going to be having some fun
with this system :^)
Zane
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