13 Mar
2008
13 Mar
'08
2:45 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
It took me a year or two to even get DECnet/E working on my PDP-11/73
under RSTS/E 10.1, the trick finally turned out to be I *HAD* to
install from a TK50, it seems to be the one thing that can't be
installed from a 4mm DAT tape.
I haven't tried a 4mm DAT tape yet, but I was able to install DECnet/E
4.1 from an 8mm tape using an EXB-8200 SCSI tape drive connected to a
TTi (Transitional Technology Inc) QTS-3 SCSI TMSCP controller to
verify that that drive and controller combination works with real DEC
software.
I initially thought that drive and / or controller combination was not
working correctly as I could never get 2.11BSD installed using it.
Now I think it is something in the 2.11BSD installation tape 'boot'
binary that probably has some TMSCP assumptions that are not always
true on all controllers. I had the same problem with 2.11BSD using a
CQD-200/T (aka MTI QTS30) controller, while a CMD CQD-220/TM worked
fine.