Can anyone please help...
I am trying to install OpenVMS 7.3-1 for the first time onto a DEC 3000
Model 600, I have checked the compatibility of the hardware and the
console firmware is the latest version however the installation process
hangs with the message "%SWAPPER-I-SYSDISK, checking status of system
disk"
Has anyone experienced this before.
All help advice and suggestions gratefully received
Robin
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Brad Parker <brad(a)heeltoe.com> wrote:
> Excellent. I didn't realize that. I think I got confused looking at
> NetBSD (which says it won't boot on a 730).
Please don't confuse BSD and NetBSD. It may help to realise that "net" is
Russian for "no", so NetBSD really means "not BSD". I strongly encourage you to
run 4.3BSD on your VAX. A Classic Computer should run a Classic OS!
> It looks like it has an RL02, an "R80" and some sort
> of 9-track. It's two racks wide. We'll see :-)
Standard 730 config. But the good part is that you have a tape drive, that's
the most important and most often overlooked part.
> I understand there were microcode issues on the 730 which made booting
> painful.
Yup.
> I didn't realize there was a "fix" to the microcode.
Yes, I'm pretty sure it was fixed, although since I have never actually had a
730 in my hacky hands I have never been able to see and verify it for myself.
Ultrix V2.00 source contains the following comment (in /sys/stand/Makefile):
# 9 Dec 83 --jmcg
# Deleted special references to old 730 bug. There is no longer a
# distinction between versions for 780, 750, and 730. Distribution
# media, however, contain `boot_justask' as `boot' to avoid attempts
# to boot prematurely.
This comment makes me fairly assured that this bug was indeed fixed, and from
the comment date apparently quite early.
I have a copy of VAX-11/730 console and microcode cassette with microcode
version 58, which almost certainly has this bug fixed. Unfortunately it is not
a virgin copy but a mutilated one. It was copied under Vampirist Mediocre
System (VMS) which did not do a true block-for-block copy like UNIX dd, but
parsed the original RT-11 filesystem and copied only the files, constructing a
new RT-11 filesystem on the copy, so the files are not necessarily in their
original locations, the dates on the files are wrong (the date of VMS copying,
not the original date), etc. Since this cassette image is mutilated, it is not
on my FTP site, but I can send it to you if you need it. I am still looking for
a virgin block-for-block 730 TU58 image.
MS
Some time ago I wrote on this list:
: First there was Ultrix-11
: for PDP-11 (DEC's stolen V7 UNIX).
It has been brought to my attention that the above has been interpreted
differently from my intended meaning. I did not mean stolen in the negative
legal/moral definition of this term (as in robbing someone of something), I
meant it in the much more common programmers' vernacular definition of "stolen"
as in "I stole this routine from...", without any negative meaning whatsoever.
I apologise for the unintentional alternate meaning and its negative
implications.
MS
Curt vendel <curt(a)atarimuseum.com> wrote:
> Ultrix was written for MIPS processors wasn't it???
I guess you are too young to remember VAX Ultrix. :-) First there was Ultrix-11
for PDP-11 (DEC's stolen V7 UNIX). Then Ultrix-32 for the VAX (DEC's stolen
4.2BSD). Whenever I say Ultrix, I mean Ultrix-32 for the VAX. Ultrix-32 was
then ported to MIPS.
MS
Can anyone tell me if there is a version of Ultrix which will boot on an
11/730?
And if so, can I grab media files off the net somewhere?
(I know 4.3bsd would, and I'd like to fool around with netbsd but it
seems like ultrix might be a good way to bootstrap)
or, is there a better place to ask? (pups? tuhs?)
-brad
Gang - I finally found an official serialized copy of "SCELBAL A high Level
Language
for the 8008", plus Wadsworth "Machine Language Programming for the 8008",
plus Scelbi "Galaxy Game for the 8008/8080", "First Book of Games for the
8008/8080",
"Monitor for 8080" and "Editor for 8080".
The bad news is they're in a library so all I can do is check them out,
scan, and
return, according to the lady at the counter. Still, there must be some way
I can
purchase books that haven't been checked out in over 20 years from an Institute
of Technology library.
--Chuck
Will a magnetic bulk eraser restore a floppy to good status?
I have some floppies that are reporting bad sectors when formatted. I've
tried bulk erasing them, and a format afterwards reports no bad sectors.
Is this actually working, or am I just getting lucky, and those bad
sectors will return shortly.
These are DSDD 3.5's which are getting a little harder to come by. So if
bulk erasing works, then I'll do that and salvage them.
-chris
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