17 Jul
2004
17 Jul
'04
7:16 p.m.
On Jul 17, 22:44, Robert Armstrong wrote:
I just got my hands on an FPF11 board, and naturally
I want to
connect
it to my 11/23+ right away! I understand that the 40
pin header on
the
card edge connects to a 40 pin DIP plug that goes into
one of the
microcode option sockets on the 11/23+.
Correct.
Dumb question #1 - is it conventional to install the
FPF11 in the
slot
immediately below the CPU, thus displacing all the
memory boards down
a
slot? Or does the FPF11 go in the first Q/Q slot
(slot 4) ? Or does
it
even matter?
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2003-October/020356.html
Dumb question #2 - the handbook says, "[the
FPF11] ... complements
the
KEF11-AA". Does this mean that the FIS option
chip must _also_ be
installed in the 11/23+? Or must it _not_ be installed?
No. No. That is, it doesn't matter :-)
Dumb question #3 - does it matter which one of the
microcode option
sockets you plug the FPF11 into?
Probably not, though it's meant to go into socket 2.
And... #4 - how do you know if the thing's
working? Short of
having
the diagnostics for it, of course, which I don't.
Run the diags, or run an OS that detects it (RT-11 will) and some code
that should run faster if it's there?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York