On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Ashley Carder wrote:
Does anyone have any info/documentation on the
XXDP diagnostics for older
PDP-11 systems and peripherals? I'm looking in particular for the 11/40
(11/35), RK05, DZ11, RL02, MM11 core memory, RX01, RL01 diagnostics. I
have found some info on Henk's site, but would like to know if anyone has
a comprehensive list and hints on how to run these, what the output
means, how to answer the prompts, etc.
I think I have some information in paper form around somewhere. Probably
easiest to ask about specifics.
I have created RL02 packs with XXDP 2.5 and XXDP
2.2 and I can boot and
run stuff from these packs. It appears that the 11/40 diagnostics are on
XXDP 2.2, but not on XXDP 2.5. I have an old 1976 DEC field rep
troubleshooting guide that refers to various MAINDECs, which seem to have
been the diagnostics prior to XXDP. Is there a list somewhere showing
what the XXDP equivalents of the old MAINDECs are?
I think MAINDECs are the specific test program that you can find on your
XXDP pack.
The older test programs should be runnable on new XXDP as well, but one
RL02 is definitely not enough to hold everything, so they probably
stripped away some older test suits.
Any help would be appreciated. I want to exercise
my 11/40 and attached
peripherals and see if any subtle gremlins are lurking anywhere
within. Everything appears to be working perfectly with the exception of
one of my three RK05 drives that I knew was problematic.
Ask away.
Might as well do it privately as well. No point in usign the bw of the
list for specific items.
I would prefer to see the list BW used by topics such as this than the
numerous other completely off topic discussions which seem to congest
my mailbox.
--tom
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