Hi guys,
I'm fiddeling around for hours now to get an M3119-YA CXY08
Multiplexer to work in my VAX4000/300 on VMS7.3.
The Card is properly detected it seems..
Device Device Error
Name Status Count
FTA0: Offline 0
OPA0: Online 0
TNA0: Offline 0
TNA2: Online 0
TXA0: Online 4
TXA1: Online 0
TXA2: Online 0
TXA3: Online 7
TXA4: Online 0
TXA5: Online 0
TXA6: Online 0
TXA7: Online 0
VTA0: Offline 0
.
SYSGEN> SH/CONF
System CSR and Vectors on 17-AUG-2015 19:17:01.69
Name: PAA Units: 1 Nexus:0 (CI )
Name: PAB Units: 1 Nexus:1 (CI )
Name: EZA Units: 4 Nexus:2 (NI )
Name: PUA Units: 1 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 772150 Vector1: 154 Vector2: 000
Name: PTA Units: 1 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 774500 Vector1: 260 Vector2: 000
Name: PTB Units: 1 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 760404 Vector1: 300 Vector2: 000
Name: TXA Units: 8 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 760440 Vector1: 310 Vector2: 314
SYSGEN>
..and it is the first card left of the CPU in the QBUS Backplane followed
>from an working CQD200/TM.
AThe DIP Switches are set like the standard in some CXY08 Manual, the MUX
is set to DHU11 programming model.
I've first tried to connect a serial line pronter with no luck so I've
tried to connect a 2nd VT420 and have no luck again. I know of the meaning
of the several modem control signals and how they should be wired, have
connected such a "null modem RS232 device" that shorts 4 to 5 and 6+8 to
20. I've tried to copy data from a file to the lines and I have shorted 2+3
of the Muxer Pins from the line and done a SET HOST/DTE/ESC=E TXA0:,allt
that ends with an timeout writing to the lines and the lines acting
identically, regardles which one I try to use.
$ copy SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM txa3:
%COPY-E-WRITEERR, error writing TXA3:[]SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM;5
-RMS-F-WER, file write error
-SYSTEM-F-TIMEOUT, device timeout
%COPY-W-NOTCMPLT, SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM;5 not completely
copied
$ sh term txa3
Terminal: _TXA3: Device_Type: Unknown Owner: No Owner
Input: 9600 LFfill: 0 Width: 80 Parity: None
Output: 9600 CRfill: 0 Page: 24
Terminal Characteristics:
Interactive Echo Type_ahead No Escape
No Hostsync TTsync Lowercase No Tab
Wrap Scope No Remote No Eightbit
Broadcast No Readsync No Form Fulldup
Modem No Local_echo Autobaud No Hangup
No Brdcstmbx No DMA No Altypeahd Set_speed
No Commsync Line Editing Overstrike editing No Fallback
No Dialup No Secure server No Disconnect No Pasthru
No Syspassword No SIXEL Graphics No Soft Characters No Printer Port
Numeric Keypad No ANSI_CRT No Regis No Block_mode
No Advanced_video No Edit_mode No DEC_CRT No DEC_CRT2
No DEC_CRT3 No DEC_CRT4 No DEC_CRT5 No Ansi_Color
VMS Style Input
$
Depending on set term/modem or set term/printer the modem control lines are
changing the level, that's ok. But I can't get a single character printed
to the terminal which I have verified with an USB to serial cable already,
the terminal is ok and I have an LED-Analyzer for RS232 between the RS232
Plugs..
Since I'm a total VMS Noob I now have some Questions:
.. have I missed something?
.. is the CXY08 bad?
.. what could I try next?
...is there some diagnosting software for the CXY08 existing for VMS
and if yes, where can I get it?
Thanks in advance,
Holm
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> IA saturates the channel. Jason and IA are deliberately working to redirect all search
> traffic to IA from the original mirrors by constantly creating useless 'new' content that
> Google thinks is real.
>
> I have watched over time as the volume of Google top search hits have migrated to IA hosted
> content from the mirrors.
I have occasionally stumbled into the bitsavers stuff on IA and was just confused and perplexed about what the IA guys are trying to do. Bitsavers has a perfectly obvious and navigable layout; IA makes no sense at all.
(Of course I'm a little biased!!!)
Tim N3QE
Try Imagedisk for DOS (with actually somewhat of an interface). Great
software, superb manual.
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm
Also Omnidisk for DOS (command line)
http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniDisk/OmniDisk.htm#Downloads
And Omniflop for WinXP with a GUI
http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm#Downloads
All of them can read and write a particular sector.
With Imagedisk you can image the original disk to a file image, and view the
image data in a nice hex editor by sector, make your changes, and write back
the modified version to a disk. All with a simple and efficient DOS GUI.
Marc
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jwsmobile <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
I wonder if someone can help with a bit of a problem I have.
I have a compaq portable 3 system which has a working Pick (Non dos)
system on it.
It has the 5 1/4" floppy drives on it. I am looking for a bootable
floppy or 2 with something like dos 6.x on it and some utility that can
read and write disk sectors. Preferably the latter is a nice gui
program, but beggers can't be choosers.
I need to boot it up from the floppy drive and modify the pick system
dictionary to remove the main password. So the change to the system
will be surgical, just one sector.
If anyone can help, can you send me a note and let me know how I can
compensate you for your help.
If I really move crap around I may be able to find a system with the 5
1/4" floppies on it, but I'm not sure I could get a program onto the
system then out to the 5 1/4" drive and am also looking for suggestions
about what disk utility / editor might be useful if anyone has
suggestions on that. I'll go ahead and dredge up something soon if I
can't get help from somewhere.
thanks
Jim Stephens
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Hi Everyone,
I?m looking for a scan or a printout of the contents of DEC fiche EP-M8436-MA-A.
It?s referenced at the top of page 163 of http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp11/xxdp/fiche_200dpi/0254_ind…, and allegedly contains the details for M8436, M8437,M8439, and M8440 boards -- all of which were parts for the Decmate series of machines.
If anyone has access to this (even if you have no way to read it), or has a pointer to where I might find it, I?d very much appreciate if you?d drop me a line.
Thanks very much,
Rob Ferguson
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4711
Choice quote:
"I am writing this from the car, sitting in the passenger seat with my shoes off. I have been standing for 12 hours. I've been giving introductions and tours and explanations and theories and everything else that comes when you put a bunch of strangers together with a single-minded purpose. They have been too good. Way better than anybody deserves in the way of volunteers. They have been helpful, kind, inquisitive, dedicated. They have come from miles around. Sometime around 11 a.m., it became very obvious that the 252 banker boxes we have bought or a laughable underestimation. We were going to need more. We are going to need much more, and we were going to need it now. I made a call to the Uline Company, and asked for the impossible: I wanted 8 pallets of boxes, delivered within the day. And within four hours, they arrived. To deliver 1052 banker boxes within 4 hours, combined with the cost of the boxes themselves, was $4000."
> From: Eric Smith
> If a person has any reasonable business justification
But a lot of the people here don't; they're purely hobbyists. So spending
$1K on a piece of test equipment just isn't realistic for them.
Having said that, I do see some DSO's on eBay for not much money (e.g. the
little hand-held ones), and those might be a good alternative to a logic
analyzer - I never used one, so I tend not to think of them.
Noel
Some guy on eBay is selling a ton of QBUS boards, cheap:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/computer_surpluscheap/m.html
Includes deals such as 11/23 CPU's _with_ KTF11 and KEF11 for $30, 11/73 CPU's
for $50, etc, etc.
Anyone recognize those Motorola memory cards? Do we have documentatio for
them?
Noel
> From: Paul Koning
> If you can, avoid black/white scans. The reason is that scanners are
> often noisy in that mode ... Copiers used in scan mode are particularly
> likely to do this. Such documents are also surprisingly hard to read,
> look messy when printed, and utterly fail OCR.
I was talking about scanning prints (which is how this originally came up,
someone said 300 dpi doesn't catch the very fine printing one can find on
them - which is true, I've had issues in this regard too).
I'm using a professional-grade A3-size scanner (found on eBay for the
princely sum of $100 - it's an older model, with a SCSI interface) - for
scanning fold-out prints, the typical A4/8-1/2x11 scanner won't eat them
whole.
And of course OCR is a non-concept for prints.
For manuals (text), on the other hand, 300 dpi is of course fine.
Noel
> From: Sean Caron
> I have found that even fairly fine detail reproduces okay with a 300
> DPI scan ... there's no need in scanning with extraneous bit depth and
> then you start to get people complaining about file sizes
I have found that one can generally have one's cake, and eat it too:
if I scan at 600dpi in black and white, and then use "CCITT Group 4"
compression, the resulting images (of prints) are ~200KB per page.
Is that small enough? :-)
Noel
Now that I (hopefully) have my PDP 11/23 running (it passes CPU and memory
tests, anyway), I've been messing with my RLV11 so I can use my RL02.
For a first step, I'm trying to run the VRLBC0 diskless diagnostic to check
the controller. I checked that the address and vector switches are set to
the defaults according to he manual, and also verified them with a
multimeter.
The manual says the default vector address is 330, though the diagnostics
default to 160. I tried it both ways with the same result, though I should
be on 330.
I'm not actually sure what "BR LEVEL" refers to, so I left that at the
default.
This is a PDP 11/23 with an H-9273 backplane. I have the M8186, M8067,
M8043, then the two RLV11 boards, M8013 and M8014, then an M8012.
Here's a sample run. It appears to start, but never does anything else. If
I give it a bad address it does complain, so I think I have the switches
correct.
Does anyone know what I might try next? Thanks!
.R VRLBC0
VRLBC0.BIC
DRSSM-G2
CVRLB-C-0
RLV12 DISKLESS
UNIT IS RLV12, RLV11, OR RL11
RSTRT ADR 145702
DR>START
CHANGE HW (L) ? Y
# UNITS (D) ? 1
UNIT 0
RLV12 (L) Y ? N
RLV11 (L) Y ? Y
CSR ADDRESS (O) 174400 ?
VECTOR (O) 160 ? 330
BR LEVEL (O) 4 ?
CHANGE SW (L) ? Y
ERROR LIMIT FOR AUTO-DROP (D) 0 ?
ALL REMAINING QUERIES ARE FOR OPTIONAL (MANUFACTURING)
G5388 TEST-LOOP-MODULE SET-UP. USE <^Z> TO BYPASS.
G5388 TLM INSTALLED (L) N ? N
MMU AVAILABLE
MEMORY SIZE 124 KW
18 BIT ADDRESSING
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Ben Sinclair
ben at bensinclair.com
