Hi guys - as per title really. Does anyone have a copy of any
documentation pertaining to the KZQSA QBUS SCSI adaptor local? I've
followed a couple of trails and hit dead ends. I'm looking to do a bit of
dev with the card...
TIA
alex/melt
O Gurus assembled - hear my story:
Was at Mike Quinn's in the Area of the Bay on Saturday after a nice visit
to Sellam's ..... um.... place of business. ;}
Found a forlorn VAXStation 3100 M38 upside down in a stack of PCs, and
bought same for about twice the going rate. Of course, that amount of
money would still not get one a decent burrito, so I didn't pay much.
Getting it home and hooked up, it goes thru the usual VAXStation boot
sequence ending in the >>> chevron prompt.
Attempting to boot, >>> b (ret)
produces a 1 minute wait and returns
40 NOSUCHDEV
06 HLT INST
PC=00000C66
the first time after power-up and
40 NOSUCHDEV
84 FAIL
subsequently to [back-panel button] resetting and re-attempting a boot.
This was a DEC-owned machine, it has a DEC property/asset tag on it, and
the drive is a DEC RZ23-E (Connor). If it's running, it's the damn
quietest HD I've ever encountered. The drive is getting it's proper
voltages, +5 and +12, and upon power up the faintest of 'clicks' can be
heard within it (parking solenoid??) and then nothing.
I have tried the judicious use of repetitive impulse torque normal to
the plane of rotation of the platters (I held it and banged a corner with
the handle of a screwdriver) in case the spindle was perhaps stuck.
SO: I'd love to know what's on this HD, but it's possible to also form
the assumption that it has gone to be with it's Honorable Ancestors and
will not return this way again.
Any thoughts / ideas?
Thanking Y'all in advance:
Cheers
John
It seems I can't save a file twice with the same name
... write basic program ...
save "program",8
... edit basic program ...
save "program",8
(light on floppy blinks - error )
verify "program",8
wont verify
... power cycle ...
load "program",8
... view program ... it's the old program, not the edited program.
this behaviour noted on both a read c64sx (before it croaked) and on
the VICE emulator.
I can't seem to see anything in the manual about it.. and also no
command to delete a file.
R. D. Davis <rdd(a)rddavis.org> wrote:
> This is interesting. Why then do DECvoice and Fallon FAX cards, for a
> Qbus VAX, have connectors for a T1 line on them? Not being very
> familiar with telephone equipment with T1 lines, perhaps I'm
> overlooking something. Any thoughts on this?
In telephony applications a T1 is split into 24 channels each carrying a phone
call. When, however, someone speaks about T1 as a dedicated line for Inet, a
device called a CSU/DSU takes the entire T1 payload (all 24 channels together)
and turns it into an EIA-422 or V.35 synchronous serial stream that a router
then has to deal with. In fractional T1 applications the CSU/DSU is
reconfigured to take fewer than all 24 channels, reducing the bit rate on the
EIA-422 or V.35 line.
MS
Does anyone here know where I can get a
stylus for this machine? It's a '486 slate pc
by TelePad.
I'm hoping that they used a compatible stylus
>from like maybe a Kurta pad, or something
similar. The TelePad company itself is long
gone . . . .
Thanks!
Jeff
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Steve Davidson <steve(a)scshome.net> wrote:
> Do you still have the V4.2 source online anywhere? Trying to copy it from
> harhan.org is painful at best.
If you want it to be less painful, buy me a T1 subscription (would have to be
>from WorldCom/UUNET, I have a Class C NET from them and I won't give it up) and
a sync serial card for either VAXBI bus or Q22-bus that can handle it.
MS
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 Paul Koning <pkoning(a)equallogic.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Guy" == Guy Sotomayor <ggs(a)shiresoft.com> writes:
>
> Guy> Hi, Does anyone know how much 3-phase power (at say 220v) a
> Guy> KL-10 requires?
>
> Guy> I just acquired some commercial space to move my collection into
> Guy> and I noticed today that there are several 220v 3-phase power
> Guy> drops that I hadn't noticed previously. I'm kind of hoping that
> Guy> I'll have enough 3-phase to be able to start resurecting my
> Guy> KL-10, but I need to know how much I need.
>
> I remember a big plug rated at probably at least 50 amps.
Sounds about right.
> One suggestion would be to check the name plates either on the chassis
> near the power inlets, or on the power supplies. You might also use
> the power cable and plug dimensions as a guideline; find the current
> rating of the cable used for the power inlet. That should be somewhat
> over the actual amount needed but not massively so -- power syhstem
> designers don't usually overdesign cables by large margins.
Yes, they do.
The VAX8600 was targeted at large IBM sites, so they put in an oversized
power cable and receptacle, that was the same as for the IBM equipment
they planned to replace.
So the 8650 I have here have a cable and receptacle specified for
410V@32A/phase, but it runs just fine on 16A/phase.
And our KL-10 sat on this *huge* 410V@63A/phase thingie. That receptacle
was just large enough to be silly. And the power cable is not something
you carry around in your hand...
Johnny
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|| on a psychedelic trip
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Antonio Carlini <arcarlini(a)iee.org> wrote:
> The fastest you can get on Qbus is the DSV11.
I know, I have one, and I used it for my Inet connection when I lived in Dallas
and had a 64 kbit/s DDS line. It's rated for up to 256 kbit/s with one channel
active or 64 kbit/s with both channels active.
> That can almost
> handle 1Mb/s (it fails when fed a constant stream of minimal
> length HDLC frames so it was rated at 256kb/s - the next
> lower useful speed).
Do you have any more details about DSV11 operation above the rated 256 kbit/s?
What exactly is the real limit and what are the limiting factors? I have the
technical description (EK-DSV11-TD), but it isn't absolutely clear.
> The DSB32 is also
> not an option if you have a VAX 7000
I'm not using a VAX 7000 (and don't consider it a real VAX thanks to LSB and
whatever else they broke in NVAX+ when they fit it into an Alpha pinout), but
I'm curious why. I mean, how is DSB32 special? I recently searched for DSB32
on Google and came upon a posting by you saying the same thing, there you also
said it had something to do with the way its firmware locked memory. What
exactly is wrong with it? Does it strictly follow the VAXBI spec or was it
given an exception? Does it use IRCI/UWMCI pairs exactly as the spec says or is
it broken? Or is the VAX 7000 kludge the one at fault here in that the memory
is not presented to VAXBI as prescribed by chapter 8 of the VAXBI spec (the
Must Respond Set for Memory Slave), and DSB32 just happens to be the only
device that uses everything that the spec says is allowed? Or will all VAXBI
devices that use BVP (interlocked queues) not work on VAX 7000 because its VAXBI
interface to memory (through XMI and LSB) does not support IRCI and UWMCI?
That would be DSB32, AIE/AIO (DEBNx TK50/TK70/Ethernet), all BI-to-CI adapters,
DWBUA if some UNIBUS device accesses memory with DATIP-DATO (which turn into
IRCI/UWMCI), what else? You said DMB32 should work, I guess it isn't using
interlocked queues. But then again IRCI and UWMCI are the in the Must Respond
Set for memory nodes (section 8.2.2), so it would just mean that VAX 7000 is
not a real VAX as I've been saying all along.
> I suspect that for T1 speeds you'll be stuck using an
> Alpha or possibly a DECnis,
Well, neither Alpha nor DECnis firmware run 4.3BSD-Quasijarus, so those are not
my options (I love my 4.3BSD-Quasijarus based router and won't give it up), but
there is one more option: build a new sync serial card! We can even build both
Q22-bus and VAXBI versions.
MS
Ok I'm extremely irked.
Friday afternoon the classiccmp server decided it didn't have a slave drive.
It has done this once or twice before, for some reason the system can't see
the drive anymore so it flags it as non-existent. Usually after a reboot it
goes fine for a few months at least. Most odd. I'm guessing it's the crappy
Western Digital 160gb drive I bought. Don't think I'll be getting any more
Western Digital for a while. It came back up friday afternoon and I saw a
few emails go through the list so I assumed all was well again. Stupid Me.
So I promptly decided to ignore the list for the weekend, had a very full
weekend with lots of other stuff (work & home) to do. Sunday night I noticed
that the list hadn't passed any traffic since friday night. First thing I
checked was the drive, but that was ok. It was a very bizzare odd problem.
Sendmail appeared to be working fine but mailman wasn't queueing any
messages. Both inbound and outbound mail were definitely working though.
Odd - the pid files for mailman were dated in the future, but the system
date was correct (and had been). I tried pretty much every trick I could
think of to no avail. I finally gave up around 1am and said the heck with
it, I needed sleep and have some WorkStuff to take care of. Tonight will
probably be an all nighter due to a different work-related server issue. I
had even tried re-installing mailman 212, figuring a binary got corrupted in
the fiasco friday afternoon. No Joy. Looks like all messages were sent to
the shunt directory, which means a mailman executable failed. Some message
about can't unicode because bytes 0-4 are not cardinal. Ick.
So this morning I upgraded to mailman 2.1.4. That seems to have done the
trick. Pid files are still dated in the future though. What fun.
All appears to be back up and running. I apologize for the extended outtage.
You'll forgive me if I ignore this list for a few days, I just don't want to
think about the server for a bit. It's self-interest, I figure if I stay
away from it for a few days I won't be so ready to unplug it and chuck it
out the 2nd story datacenter window.
Regards,
Jay West
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hi all,
Eric bought an item that I had on E-bay about 6 weeks ago and I've
emailed several times but I haven't gotten a response. After yesterday's
posting I heard from a friend of his that also hasn't been able to contact
him. Is there anyone in the same area as Eric that can check and find out
what's happened to him?
I had a phone number for him and I just tried calling it and the guy that
answered said that Eric doesn't have that number any longer. It sounded as
if he's gotten a lot of calls for Eric.
Joe
Eric are you out there? If then you need to contact me. I've sent you two
E-mails and haven't gotten a reply.
Joe
