Tony wrote...
Thougths (and be warned that I am not an RT11 expert)
Firstly, where does it halt?
I will get that information the next time I go down
and work on that
machine.
Does anything ever appear on the
console? Is it possible there's a problem with the console interface?
Possible,
but... xxdp (both v1 and v2.5) works, and vtserver (which is of
course highly dependant on the serial port) works.
I've seen this sort of problem once on an 11/34.
It halted when booting
RT11. It turned out that one of the DIP switches on the DL11-W console
interface card was defective, the card was therefore sending the wrong
interrupt vector. As soon as RT11 enabled interrupts on that device, it
got said bogus vector and halted (see above).
I've tried a few different
DL11-W's, all the same. I have this funny feeling
it doesn't have a good line clock.
I *DID* run a diagnostic that is supposed to be fairly thorough... Below is
the output. Of course, the docs don't tell me what this output means, nor do
I have source to dig in to (not that I am good with macro11 yet). But here's
the diag output:
@DL
CHMDLE0 XXDP+ DL MONITOR
BOOTED VIA UNIT 0
28K UNIBUS SYSTEM
ENTER DATE (DD-MMM-YY):
RESTART ADDR: 152010
THIS IS XXDP+. TYPE "H" OR "H/L" FOR HELP.
.R CQKCG1
CQKCG1.BIC
DCQKC-G 11/40 & 11/45 INST EXER
OPT.CP=145406
OPT.DEV.=000001
PASS #0000 VPC=152114 PSW=000344
PASS #0000 VPC=152114 PSW=030344
PASS #0000 VPC=152114 PSW=030344
PASS #0000 VPC=152114 PSW=030344
PASS #0000 VPC=
and the cursor just sits to the right of that last VPC=
So can anyone who may have source for that diag and familiarity with macro
11 tell me what this might be pointing to?
Other oddities - the DL11-W diagnostic locks up right after it says
something like "01 devices under test" on two different DL11-W cards. On the
third card, it continues but then says something about LTC bit 7 isn't
setting. I find it hard to believe all three cards are bad... especially
when they work fine transmitting and receiving 10mb without error under
vtserver. But then, perhaps vtserver isn't doing interrupt mode.
Thanks for any thoughts!
Jay West