12 Jun
2010
12 Jun
'10
5:15 a.m.
I "imaged" (via SIMH/Linux [*]) a Quantum SCSI drive with RSTS/E and
connected to the RQZX1 and via the built-in configuration menu able to
see the drive (drive label appears at the correct SCSI ID) and run the
"read" diagnostics successfully.
But using the KDJ11-E boot menu I get an error "10 - Drive not ready"
- is there something I need to do in the KDJ11-E or the RQZX1 that I
have overlooked?
Any ideas would be appreciated. I now have access to the KDJ11-E
manual thanks to Bitsavers. But no documentation on the RQZX1, other
than what I can glean from the built-in menus.
[*] SYSGEN'd and then "dd" the resulting file to the drive. If I "od
-o" the drive I can see location 0 and 2 have the DEC boot signature.
RQZX1 SCSI Host Adapter Monitor Software Rev 2.2 23-Jun-1993
(C) Digital Equipment Corporation 1992 Hardware Rev L
***************************** Q-bus Configuration ******************************
* *
* DMA : Burst length : 01 CSR0 : 172150 MSCP *
* Block length : 08 CSR1 : 174500 TMSCP *
* Burst delay : 01 * 1.6 us *
* *
* LUN CSR Mode Drive no. Start LBN End LBN Device Type *
* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- *
* DU 0 0 MSCP SCSI ID 0 0000000000 0004124732 Disk *
* *
* *
* *
* *
* *
* *
* *
* Type Control-Z or <CR> to return to previous menu *
* *
********************************************************************************
12 Jun
12 Jun
10:11 a.m.
What version of RSTS/E, and does it support the RQZX1? I think that
support might have come with 10.1.
I'm not sure if anyone has actually attempted what you're doing, some
of us were discussing this a year or two ago, but I know I've not had
time to try it.
What I have done was take an image created on either SIMH or E11 (I'm
pretty sure I was using SIMH), put RT-11 on it, written that out to a
CD-R, and booted and installed from that. I've done the same with
RSX-11M+. IIRC, I was unable to successfully boot the RSTS/E CD.
I'm using a Viking QDT SCSI controller.
My *theory* for the HD is to first use dd to create a disk image,
then install RSTS/E on that disk image, and dd it back to the HD.
Of course you may simply have some sort of hardware issue going on
there as well, I'm not familiar with the RQZX1.
Zane
At 10:15 PM +1000 6/12/10, Nigel Williams wrote:
I "imaged" (via SIMH/Linux [*]) a Quantum
SCSI drive with RSTS/E and
connected to the RQZX1 and via the built-in configuration menu able to
see the drive (drive label appears at the correct SCSI ID) and run the
"read" diagnostics successfully.
But using the KDJ11-E boot menu I get an error "10 - Drive not ready"
- is there something I need to do in the KDJ11-E or the RQZX1 that I
have overlooked?
Any ideas would be appreciated. I now have access to the KDJ11-E
manual thanks to Bitsavers. But no documentation on the RQZX1, other
than what I can glean from the built-in menus.
[*] SYSGEN'd and then "dd" the resulting file to the drive. If I "od
-o" the drive I can see location 0 and 2 have the DEC boot signature.
RQZX1 SCSI Host Adapter Monitor Software Rev 2.2 23-Jun-1993
(C) Digital Equipment Corporation 1992 Hardware Rev L
***************************** Q-bus Configuration
******************************
*
*
* DMA : Burst length : 01 CSR0 : 172150 MSCP
*
* Block length : 08 CSR1 : 174500
TMSCP *
* Burst delay : 01 * 1.6 us
*
*
*
* LUN CSR Mode Drive no. Start LBN End LBN
Device Type *
*
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* DU 0 0 MSCP SCSI ID 0 0000000000 0004124732 Disk
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
* Type Control-Z or <CR> to return to previous menu
*
*
*
********************************************************************************
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| healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
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13 Jun
13 Jun
3:58 a.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
What I have done was take an image created on either
SIMH or E11 (I'm
pretty sure I was using SIMH), put RT-11 on it, written that out to a
CD-R, and booted and installed from that. I've done the same with
RSX-11M+. IIRC, I was unable to successfully boot the RSTS/E CD. I'm
using a Viking QDT SCSI controller.
I use both SIMH and E11 when I run RT-11 on my PC. So I am familiar with
some of the problems.
If it will help in the testing, would a CD-R with RT-11 be acceptable?
There is a dual file
structure CD which can be used as a data CD as a regular CD and also
boot RT-11 on
real DEC hardware using a SCSI CD drive which supports 512 byte blocks.
For the one example that I produced, classiccmp has it available at:
http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/RT-11/dists/
and the compressed file with the CD image is RT11DV10.ISO.zip
If I am not mistaken, I think that Zane has a copy of this CD image and
actually booted RT-11 on his DEC PDP-11 at some point in the distant
past.
The is also a companion CD produced at the same time with all the
additional RT-11 binary distributions which were released after V05.03
of RT-11. This image was actually produced first as RT11DV50.ISO
and then altered to produce RT11DV10.ISO by using RT-11 to change
to contents of the README.1ST file and zeroing out the contents of
the RT-11 distributions released after V05.03 of RT-11. All of this
changing of the contents was done by using RT-11.
Jerome Fine
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