24 Feb
2016
24 Feb
'16
1:11 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Don North <north at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
On 2/24/2016 3:43 AM, Mike Ross wrote:
For VAX-11/730 console yes it is absolutely required as far as I know;
everything I've read about people using emulation there says that it
is.
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
'No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother.
Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame.
For one person, in the dark, where no one will ever know or see.'
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 4:26 AM, Mike Ross <tmfdmike at gmail.com> wrote:
Why are you using MRSP mode (-m switch)? Do you know that is absolutely
required?
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
Just for giggles I decided to try Bela Torok's Arduino-based emulator:
http://www.torok.info/computing/pdp11/tu58/
I whipped that up from bits tonight and got it working surprisingly
quickly. But the VAX still doesn't want to play; from the behaviour
and messages it's falling over at exactly the same place. The Arduino
serial console displays:
Continue after 2 INIT flags. online!
And VAX shows the now-familiar ?27 DEVICE ERROR...
Which looks a HELL of a lot like how tu58em is ending. So I don't
think the problem is with tu58em...
Is there anything I should be looking at on the VAX end here? Any
configuration or cabling details that could be screwing things up
before I drag the RS232 analyser out? I've tried changing the 'delay'
parameter on the Arduino to various values between 0 and 255 to no
avail - and I've tried a couple of different tape images in case I got
a bad one...
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
'No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother.
Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame.
For one person, in the dark, where no one will ever know or see.'
>
> On Feb 21, 2016, at 23:09, Mike Ross <tmfdmike at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually I do have a Mac within easy range of the 730. Could you do me
> a favour and throw a prebuilt OSX binary somewhere I can grab it? I
> have flaky internet in the workshop and this Mac isn't set up with
> Xcode or any other dev environment...
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/29876211/tu58em.zip
Thanks Mark... I played with this. I built a 3-wire cable; I'm sure I
have it wired right because traffic happens - and if I disconnect, or
switch Rx/Tx, it just sits there.... but this is as far as it gets:
MikeUpstairs:~ Imac$ ./tu58 -s 38400 -p /dev/tty.usbserial -d -v -m -x
-r vax73058
info: unit 0 r file 'vax73058'
info: tu58 tape emulator v1.4j (NF6X fork)
info: (C) 2005-2014 Don North <ak6dn at mindspring.com>, (C) 1984 Dan
Ts'o <Rockefeller University>
info: serial port /dev/tty.usbserial at 38400 baud
info: MRSP mode enabled (NOT fully tested - use with caution)
info: TU58 emulation start
info: R restart, S toggle send init, V toggle verbose, D toggle debug, Q
quit
info: emulator started
(I ctrl-c the VAX)
info: flag=0x00 last=0x00
info: <NULL> seen
info: flag=0x00 last=0x00
info: <NULL> seen
info: flag=0x04 last=0x00
info: <INIT> seen
info: flag=0x04 last=0x04
info: <INIT> seen
info: <INIT><INIT> seen, sending <CONT>
(?27 DEVICE ERROR on VAX)
(I ctrl-c the VAX again)
info: flag=0x00 last=0xFF
info: <NULL> seen
info: flag=0x00 last=0x00
info: <NULL> seen
info: flag=0x04 last=0x00
info: <INIT> seen
info: flag=0x04 last=0x04
info: <INIT> seen
info: <INIT><INIT> seen, sending <CONT>
(?27 DEVICE ERROR on VAX)
(repeat)
Can you spot me being stupid? Does my command line look sane re.
various options?
(I've trivially renamed the tape image file for faster typing
otherwise it's straight out of the box)