booting from RQDX3 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

31 May 2001

On May 31,  8:41, Jonathan Engdahl wrote:
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  A couple of these machines are missing the disk
controller. RQDX3's seem
 to be readily available, and there is adequate documentation of the card
 on the web (jumpers, cable pinouts, etc). Will the KDF11-AA be able to
 boot from an RQDX3? 
Not in the sense of running boot code from an RQDX3 as it has no boot ROM.
 It's possible to use a KDF11-A or KDJ11-A with an MXV11-B -- those were
common combinations -- with the MXV providing RAM, SLUs, and boot ROM in a
single slot.  An alternative is an MRV11-D which supports the same boot
ROMs.  Or you could use microPDP-11 boot ROMs in a modified BDV11, but that
would take up two slots.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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						University of York