Microvax II won't boot, hardware error?

26 Oct 2012

...
 > I don't have any spare grant continuity
cards...will this cause me trouble $ 
I don't know which of you was responsible for the paragraph-length
lines, but whoever it was please try to avoid it...?

Compensating manually,

...
   I don't
have any spare grant continuity cards...will this cause me
 trouble if I just pull a ramcard out and have nothing in its slot?  You'll need
something in that empty slot, yes. 
Well, in the A/B side of it, since (if it used to be a RAM card) it's a
slot with memory interconnect, rather than Q-bus, on the C/D side.

Not that it'll hurt anything to (try to) do grant continuity on the C/D
side; in order to accommodate quad-width cards (I think that's the
term; I mean cards as wide as the KA630 or most (all?) RAM), the C/D
interconnect has to be tolerant of grant continuity connections.  But
you don't need it.

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Microvax II won't boot, hardware error?