30 Nov
2009
30 Nov
'09
11:54 p.m.
On 01/12/2009 07:22, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
Pete Turnbull wrote:
Not entirely. There are no jumpers to change, though.
On 30/11/2009 21:03, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I'm somewhat confused by this, I know how and why you need grant cards
in a Unibus machine. But I thought the Qbus made away with that need, Also, what is your board arrangement in the
backplane? You have a
very simple system (CPU, MEM, SLU, termination+boot), but you still
have to preserve the grant chain between the CPU and the BDV-11.
Actually, you don't. If anything else uses the grant chain, you must
preserve the chain between the "anything" and the CPU. However, it
was common to put the BDV11 in the last slot, leaving others empty,
and that's a standard configuration.
although I have read something about it being needed
for certain cards
and that some controllers need to be the last card.
The RQDX1 needs to be the last card, because it doesn't pass grants.
I'm not aware of any other card with that problem.
Anyway, I have mine
in the order: CPU, MEM, SLU, TERM, with some space
between for easier
handling.
You don't want to have spaces, except perhaps between the terminator and
the cards above it. Put the memory right under the CPU, and the SLUs
right under that. If the BDV11 is further down, it'll be fine, and if
you need to add another card, it still easy.
The backplane is not the serpentine version, when I
got it, it had a
RL01 controller in it (I got two RL01 drives too) which I believe need
the straight backplane.
I will check the console cable, it came with the machine but is home
made, it goes directly from the card (i.e. no cab kit). I'm fairly
certain of the baud speed, the manual was quite clear on the jumpering
on the DLVJ1 (I call it that because the pdp-11 field guide lists it as
such).
It got renamed late in the microVAX/microPDP-11 era. Strictly speaking,
only the late revisions of the card should be called that, because only
those revisions work in certain late systems, which was the point of the
renaming. Most people still refer to them all as DLV11-J.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York