Tape drive help and/or part needed (Attention DEC-heads!)

13 Oct 1999

...
   Chris Zach
(cz(a)alembic.crystel.com) has the MIT-AI KS10, and wants to run
 ITS on it, but his tape drive (A TU77) is screwed up.  It generates a
 FORMATTER ERROR in the Status register whenever it's on.
 He has booted from drives on the same Massbus so that's OK.  
 Well, you've explained one problem already.  You're not supposed to put
 disk drives and tape drives on the same Massbus.

  It's because of software limitations and (If I remember correctly)
disk and tape drives used different numbers of massbus registers
so you have to jumper (in the PDP11 case) the RH differently.

Don't know about the 10's though. Vax RH780's could do both disks and
tapes on the same massbus.

Bill

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Tape drive help and/or part needed (Attention DEC-heads!)