On 4/24/2015 11:32 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
While I was waiting for the Ridge's disk to
dump over a 9600bps
serial port, I finally got a chance to work on my 11/34. Picked it
up last summer and it was in good shape but the power supply was
completely dead. I've rebuilt the supply and last night I worked
out the last few kinks.
So at this point all voltages are spot-on, the AC LO and DC LO
signals are high (these are active low, right?) but I can't get the
machine to respond at all -- the "DC ON" and "RUN" lights are lit up
brightly, and the "SR DISP," "BUS ERR," and "MAINT" lights
are
glowing dimly. The status register display is dark. The system does
not respond to any keypresses on the panel.
I'm getting better with UNIBUS stuff but I wanted to run this past
you guys before I whip out the debugging tools and start tracing
things. I've taken it down to a pretty minimal configuration, sans
any memory or other stuff. Here's what I have in the main backplane
(all others are disconnected for the time being) from right to left:
Slot 1: M7266 (CPU)
Slot 2: M7265 (CPU)
Slot 3: (AB) M9301 (bootstrap terminator) / (CDEF) M7859 (front
panel board)
Slot 4: empty
Slot 5: empty
Slot 6: empty
Slot 7: empty
Slot 8: empty
Slot 9: (AB) M9302 (terminator)
The "empty" slots have Grant Continuity boards installed and the NPG
jumpers on CB1-CB2 are all present on the backplane. I've confirmed
that all the right voltages are making it to the backplane (and I've
cleaned up those damned Molex connectors as well, just to be sure).
Is there anything I'm missing? Anything I should try? Does this
failure mode sound familiar at all?
Thanks as always,
Josh
J, try this first:
- test your M7859 KY11-LB console and a ram board in maint mode
direct access. See the manual for the KY11 for how to do this. Use
maint mode #5 to check your MS11 at select locations, per installed
boards eg. M7847 16K RAM, M9301+M9302, M7959 console. Keep the CPU
out of it for now.
Thanks, I'll give that a shot later tonight.