12 Jun
2006
12 Jun
'06
6:53 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Wright
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 12:30 PM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Any DEC RSTS folks out there, need help
Hi,
I have been working on my 11/44 for a while and finally go it
to boot and find the drives. (RA80's) I believe it had more
than the (2) I have. Drive ID buttons say 0 and 2.
The system booted RSTS 1 time and of coarse asked for the
password. I shut down the system and went back to the
"books" for a while. I then tried to boot it up again the
next day and receive the following.
How long did you let the disks run? You sid yourself it had been sitting,
I'd let the disks sit spun up for at least 4 hours.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
CONSOLE
17777707 173064
>>~
CONSOLE
17777707 173012
>>
User-defined address for Device
DZ1: not found - device disabled.
(this was there before)
RSTS V8.0-07 EVERETT XXXXXXXX (DU0) INIT V8.0-07
Option: START
Disk is being rebuilt - wait ...
DU0 Error UDASA P.OPCD P.STS P.BCNT P.BUFF P.BUF2 P.LBN
000000 000241 000010 000000 000000 000000 000000
Unrecoverable disk error on DU0
PC=121232 PS=030341 OV=000022 M5=001600 M6=003242 SP=041266
R0=000000 R1=077777 R2=042125 R3=172150 R4=041410 R5=140026
SP-> 026220 000006 000002 150103 000001 041410
Fatal RSTS/E system initialization error! On the bright side it did come with a SCSI card.
Ugh! Then don't mess with the RA80s! If you like to look at them, leave
them there, but they suck way too much power for everyday use. At least
that's how I feel.
For my 11/23+ I did my RSTS installs on a simulator then used unix 'dd' to
copy the files over to the 10gb scsi disk I use.
For the /34a which has two RL02s, I prepared the images with simh then used
vtserver to copy the images to the RL02 packs. (10MB takes about 2 to 3
hours)
I run v9.6 on the /23+ and v8.0 on the /34a.