I tried to add the TU58 emulation (of Will Kranz) to my 11/34, but
it does not work. Here is what I have done so far.
I added an SLU/RTC (M7856) in the 11/34, and while I worked that out,
I added a M7856 page to my website. The intention is to use the added
DL11-W for a connection to the TU58 emulation on a (DOS) PC.
I configured the DL11-W to CSR 776500 and the vector to 300, for DD:.
LTC is disabled, as this is the second DL11-W in the system.
The first DL11-W is the system console port.
The serial TX and RX channel are set to 9600,N,8,1.
When I boot RT11 and enter .SH DEV the output shows that the DD driver
is installed and sitting at 776500, with vectors 300 and 304. When the
DL11-W is not installed in the system, RT11 reports DD not installed.
Next, I made a cable to connect the DL11-W to the serial port of the PC.
To check the cable between the PC and the M7856, I started Win98 and
used a terminal program. When I enter a character in the terminal app,
I can read that character in the RBUF (776502). When I deposit a value
in XBUF (776506), I see that character in the receive window of the
terminal application.
So, the cable is fine. BTW, I use only 3 wires: RxD, TxD, and Gnd ...
I boot the PC to DOS, actually Win98 command prompt, not to Win98 itself
and then starting a DOS box.
Then I run TU58.EXE, for example "TU58 -cTST58.TAP". TU58 seems happy,
it takes a second (to format the new "tape") and then reports to be
"waiting for a BREAK, or enter Escape to continue".
So, I enter ESC.
Now the TU58 emulation says that it is waiting for packets ...
I have RT11 running on the /34. Then I enter on the PDP-11 console
.DIR DD0:
Nothing happens, no output appears on the TU58 emulation on the PC.
RT11 seems to hang, at least when I enter text on the PDP-11 console,
that text is echoed on the VT102, but that's all!
Entering control-C prints ^C, but does not return me to the . prompt.
BTW, the TU58.INI file has these lines:
port 0
baud 9600,N,8,1
That means that I am not using interrupts (on the PC), but polling.
I assume that when you enter .DIR DD0: on the PDP-11 console, the TU58
emulation should at least print a "received packets", but nothing is
happening. BTW, I also tried with an "irq 4" line in the tu58.ini file,
but that gives the same results.
I have the feeling that I am overlooking something obvious, or doing
something stupid. Should there be some data (receiving packets from
the PDP-11) appearing in the TU58 emulation screen?
thanks,
- Henk, PA8PDP.
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