26 Nov
2013
26 Nov
'13
7:05 p.m.
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Jerome H. Fine <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to> wrote:
If either or both of you get a chance to power up your SMS-1000
systems sometime you could answer some questions regardless of
whatever OS you may have installed on the system at the time.
First question: What firmware version does your SMS-1000 system
report? That is reported by IDENTIFY under the top level STATUS menu
item. My SMS-1000 reports "Firmware V0.6". I am really curious if
there is newer firmware version which might have a more compatible
MSCP controller implementation.
Second question: What is the set of CSR addresses available to choose
Hutch wrote:
I have one. I will power it up sometime this
week. I'm not sure how its
configured. It's been a while since I powered it up.
I have one as well, but only tested it a bit using RT-11.
So I can't help you at all. On Nov 24, 2013, at 6:42 PM, Glen Slick
<glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:
> While on the subject of SMS, does anyone have an SMS-1000 PDP-11 system?
>
> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sms/qbus/
> 3001076A_SMS1000oem_Feb87.pdf
>
> The built in storage controller is supposed to be fully MSCP
> compatible and while I have been able to get RT-11 working on the
> internal hard drive I have never been able to get it to work with
> RSTS/E or 2.11BSD. It has been a while since I've powered up the
> system and from what I remember the firmware would display a version
> less than 1.0, maybe something like 0.8, or maybe the version was
> written on the firmware EPROM labels. Also, the CSR address choices
> available to configure the built-in MSCP controller in my SMS-1000
> don't match the CSR address choices listed in the manual.
>
> If anyone else has one of these SMS-1000 systems I would be curious to
> know what firmware versions you have, and whether you have been able
> to get anything other than RT-11 working with the built in MSCP
> controller.
>
> -Glen
> from to configure the DU device? This is under the top
level menu
item CONFIGURATION, ADDRESSES, BUS ADDRESSES, DU DEVICE ADDR.
The manual lists the CSR address choices as {17772150, 17760334,
17760340, 17760344, 17760350, 17760354, 17772154}.
My SMS-1000 lists the CSR address choices as {17772150, 17772154,
17772160, 17772164, 17777150, 17777154, 17777160}.
Sample output from my system:
* HIT ANY KEY WITHIN TIME LIMIT *
SMS 1000
** SMS 1000 **
1 STATUS <--
2 OPERATION
3 EVALUATION
4 CONFIGURATION
ENTER NUMBER - 1
**STATUS**
1 IDENTIFY
2 ENVIRONMENT <--
ENTER NUMBER - 1
SMS 1000
Firmware V0.6
Sfm S/N
Ship ??/??/??
** SMS 1000 **
1 STATUS <--
2 OPERATION
3 EVALUATION
4 CONFIGURATION
ENTER NUMBER - 4
**CONFIGURATION**
1 FLOPPY FORMATS <--
2 BOOTSTRAP
3 POWER ON/RESTART
4 SERIAL PORTS
5 DEVICE PARAMETRS
6 ADDRESSES
7 SPECIAL
ENTER NUMBER - 6
**ADDRESSES**
1 INTRPT VECTORS <--
2 BUS ADDRESSES
ENTER NUMBER - 2
**BUS ADDRESSES**
1 BOOT PROM ADDR <--
2 DU DEVICE ADDR
3 PORT BASE ADDR
ENTER NUMBER - 2
**DU DEVICE**
1 17772150? <--
2 17772154?
3 17772160?
4 17772164?
5 17777150?
6 17777154?
7 17777160?
ENTER NUMBER -