10 Jun
2001
10 Jun
'01
4:35 a.m.
on 6/10/01 7:04 AM, Zane H. Healy at healyzh(a)aracnet.com wrote:
It sounds to me as if you're doing everything
right. You're just not
getting the output on the console you should be. This has me wondering a
few things.
Did you get everything as a whole or is this something you're trying to put
together from a variety of sources? If you did get this as a whole, is it
put together in the same manner it was when this was a working
configuration. Do you have all the packs mounted that were normally
mounted when it was in a working condition.
What version of RSX-11M? Do you know the actual state of your disk pack?
Do you have a terminal besides the LA120? Do you have Serial lines besides
the one the LA120 is on?
Do you have hardware documentation on the 11/34?
Now for anyone reading this, can the 11/34 do something funky like change
the speed of it's console line without having to use hardware jumpers? I
don't think it can, but from the fact that all that's being printed out,
that's my first thought, however, the fact everything looks to work before
trying to boot RSX this doesn't look to be the problem.
I got the system as a whole. Everything came from the same person, except
for the LA120, which I bought refurbished from a local dealer. I think the
communications settings have to be correct, because I get the register
printout, and when I send an ASCII character to the LA120 through the
programmer's console, it prints out correctly. I'm not sure I have all the
right packs mounted, because A) I only have 2 of the 3 drives connected, and
B) the labels on a lot of the packs are faded, or have come off completely.
The RSX-11M version is 3.1. The system has 8 (I think) additional serial
lines. I have lots of software manuals, but other than the processor
handbook, I have no hardware documentation. How many RL01 packs does an
average RSX-11M installation use? Also - do the drive numbers (0,1,2...)
depend soley on the order they are connected in?