11 Oct
2020
11 Oct
'20
5:17 p.m.
Chris,
I would like to get a clarification on this. Does either drive work
fine in the PD0 position or does the drive that was not working in the
PD1 position not work in the PD0 position? You said that the spare drive
that you put in the PD1 position also does not work. I would try it in
the PD0 position and see if it works or not. Would you please let me
know on these items?
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
On 10/11/2020 7:11 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
I'm back to working on the PDT11/150 again, the
bottom floppy is
weird: It doesn't read rx01 disks, period. Top one is fine. So I tried
swapping all of the connectors on the control board so the top one was
PD1: and the bottom was PD0: Sure enough the top drive works fine as
PD1: and bottom is still dead so it's a drive issue.
Pull the drive, put in a spare, button it up, and sure enough it still
doesn't work. Any ideas?
Also I recall my MiniMinc/150 (which is in parts in my shed) had EIS
and FIS, but this one only reports FIS. Did DEC make pdp11/03
expansion chips that only had FIS?
C