13 Jun
2010
13 Jun
'10
6:46 a.m.
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Nigel Williams
<nigel.d.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
I will also try a different model of SCSI drive too -
perhaps the
Quantum Fireball is too much of a good thing (4200RPM 2.1GB); I have
an old clunker of a Quantum ProDrive 80S (3600 RPM 80MB!)
Well the ProDrive was too small (although pleasingly quiet) RSTS/E
failed with an out of space error during install - I suspect I need to
modify the install defaults to move things around to fit such a
"small" drive.
I switched to a Seagate 1.2GB, used SIMH to build another RSTS/E
system, re-attached to the 11/93 and it now "almost" booted, which is
progress at last. Some strange characters appeared during the
second-stage boot and then the "Pack cluster size" error appeared and
it looped at this point.
So I appear to be encountering some sort of disk layout/sizing
problem. I used the default cluster size of 8 and 64 with the same
results.
Memory 2048 KW
EEprom 4 KW
Time 09:56:20 22-Apr-06 Sat
Nr Device Unit Address
1 DU ROM 0 Default Starting System
?
?
Pack cluster size is not 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 or 64.
PC=120324 PS=034344 OV=000006 M5=004000 M6=004200 SP=041240
R0=000026 R1=002020 R2=002020 R3=000000 R4=000000 R5=041350
SP-> 021364 000026 000000 102674 000000 075072
Fatal RSTS/E system initialization error!