On 4/24/2015 9:32 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
What is the M9301 configured to do on power up / init? S1-S10 all ON should take
you to the console emulator.
Which means you need a console TTY interface DL11-W M7856 in one of the empty
SPC slots.
Without the DL11-W (and no memory either) the CPU (if functional) will boot and
then soon die as it tries to access a missing console interface.
Without those probably all you could do it put the KY11-LB programmers console
into single microstep mode and see the microcode step thru the powerup / init
flow, step thru a few instruction fetches, and then die with a (probable) double
bus fault.
So I would check your M9301 switches, get a console, and get a memory board as well.