15 Dec
1998
15 Dec
'98
1:15 p.m.
At 21:19 12/15/98 -0500, you wrote:
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Hmmm, something must be wrong since nothing happens after five minutes.
I'll put the machine aside and work on it later. It's part of the pile of
DEC gear I must get rid of anyway. List of which will appear here soon.
BTW: after
flicking the boot switch, about how many minutes should it take
to do the prelim. tests before any evident booting action takes place? I
just see the # of bytes of memory displayed ("@01000000") and a few
flickers of the "Ready" light on the RL02.
Should start booting shortly
(less than 30 sec.after mem size displayed) I waited at least five minutes
I didn't mean to say RT was on any of the disk packs I tried to
bootup.Truthfully, I do not know which: RT-11 or RSX-11M as the bootable
packs were not marked. I did try a couple of the RSX-11M Distribution packs.
or more several times. After thinking I've
waited long enough to grow old
waiting, I Halt the processor and "@1013" is written to the display. Could
there be a hang? (Got simple info out of my RT-11 5.1 manuals on how to
boot an 11/24 just this AM. Stumbled upon it, actually.)
I don't know about RT - all my experience is with RSX11M+ but I would guess that it is not seeing the boot sectors. IE: try
another platter. Before
I've tried at least a half dozen packs some of which are bootable as
mentioned above. Exact same results.
inserting another disk check / clean the heads, check
the old platter for
those nasty rings.
Nasty rings? What are those??
Thanks again, CHris
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
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